Stafford Cripps and Mahatma Gandhi - 1942
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  Source: photodivision.gov.in Churchill sent Cripps to India in 1942 on what is known as the Cripps Mission to attempt to negotiate an agreement with the nationalist leaders Gandhi and Jinnah that would keep India loyal to the British war effort in exchange for a promise of full self-government after the war. No formal agreement was reached. For Churchill, the purpose of the trip was propaganda. Churchill intended Cripps to fail and blocked his efforts to give the Indians a role in the leadership of the war with the help of Linlithgow. (Wikipedia) | ||
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