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Profiles Lord Louis Mountbatten, the first Governor-General of an independent but partitioned India in 1947. Mountbatten's mutation from Viceroy of the British Raj to constitutional Governor-General; His initial encounters with Indian and international press representatives; His personal friendship with Nehru.

The author has heard of Englishmen who think India none of business of the U.S., and who object to the constant stream of criticism and suggestion now made about India in the United States. But if that goes for the Indian question, it also goes for the Negro question, and for all the other problems of race and color and religion that are involved in a global war and a global peace. Of course there are difficulties and responsibilities involved in this joint discussion of problems that used to be regarded as the internal affairs of particular nations. The U.S. says that Great Britain will not "quit India," oblivious of the fact that at the present time, all the Indian parties, including Congress, agree in wanting Great Britain to defend India.

In 1937 a tremendous event occurred. It is the cause of all the fermentation now. It is the core of the story, and out of it no one quite knows what will grow. The tremendous event was that, after the passage of the new Government of India Act, elections were held in the eleven provinces of British India, and that Congress won in seven of them and took office. Thus provincial autonomy, as promised in the new act, came into being. Thus the congress, the congress which had fought Great Britain, came into the British structure.

Focuses on socio-political developments in several countries. Claim that the appointment of Jawaharlal Nehru to head the new all-Indian Executive Council is evidence of British good faith in trying to settle the Indian question; Decision of the United States Emergency Court of Appeals that rent ceilings in New York were high enough because they were yielding landlords higher profits than before the war; Condemnation of the role of Admiral Ernest King and General Brehon Somervell in the Canol oil project in Alaska by the Mead Committee.

The article offers world news briefs for the week of July 23, 1945. Particular focus is given to a review of military news during the Pacific theater of World War II. Negotiations in India for the expanded participation of Indians in the Executive Council have faltered. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has proposed a provision to aid railroads in a pending tax bill. Further article topics include the strike of newspaper deliverymen in New York City, and the chartering of the United Nations.

The article offers world news briefs for the week of June 25, 1945. Particular focus is given to a review of military operations and issues during World War II, which includes the discovery of a large stock of deadly gas in Germany. Political stability in Europe, specifically Belgium, France and Poland, is also addressed. Other topics of the article include the installment of a self-government in India by the British, and the possible extension of the Price Control Act.

Comments on the delay of the discussion of the Indian Reform System because of the opposition within the government. Contributions of India to the cost of the war abroad; Aim of the program carry to its logical conclusion of the policy initiated by Lord Morley as Secretary of State and Lord Minto as Viceroy in 1909; Proposal that all the legislative councils shall be enabled in future to force their will on the administrations; Suggestion to increase the Indian element in the executive to make the legislature bicameral; Recommendation that five years after the inauguration of the system, the government shall have power with the consent of the Secretary of State to hand over further departments hitherto reserved to the control of Ministers.

Focuses on the current political issues in India and its possible impact on the future of the U.S. Discussion of enormous difficulties in the path of the independence movement in the country; Indications from political leader Mahatma Gandhi's new unity proposal; Policy adopted by the labor government of Great Britain in the country; Demand of home rule, expressed in a resolution passed by the National Legislative Assembly at Delhi; Similarity between the racial distinctions drawn by the British in India and against the African Americans in the U.S.

Focuses on the role of Indian national leader Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle of India for independence. Features of the Non-cooperation movement started by Gandhi; Emphasis on a crusade for free and independent India laid down by Gandhi; Information on the Mohammedan agitation for the revision of the Turkish treaty and for the restoration of the Khilafat; Statement of the Mohammedan leaders, declaring that the Khilafat was no less essentially an Indian cause the cause of Swaraj itself; Advice of Gandhi to his followers to refrain from violence of every kind and to go forward during his imprisonment with the positive work of Non-cooperation; Resolutions adopted at the annual session of the Indian National Congress; Program of non-violent non-cooperation to be prosecuted by all peaceful and legitimate means, to the end that the control of government may speedily pass into the hands of the Indian people; Statement that the government of India has prescribed the Non-cooperation volunteers as a sententious and revolutionary body.

Focuses on the present social and political conditions in India. Bitterness and anti-British sentiment among the people of India; Division of the Congress Party and the Moslem League; Discontent among the Indian population due to sharp rise in food prices and critical food shortage; Belief of the Britishers that the Indian people are not ready for self-rule because of internal disunity; Claim of British spokesmen that the Congress does not even represent the Hindu masses because its activities are supported by rich industrialists and bankers; Proposal of the Indian National Congress for the formation of a government representing every important section of Indian opinion; Demand of the Moslem League for the partition of India into separate Moslem and Hindu states; Opposition of the demand by many members of the League; Impact of mobilization for war purposes on the Hindu caste system; View that a self-governing India will face many difficult problems.

Focuses on the hunger strike by Indian political leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Reason why Gandhi went on hunger strike; Anti-British movement adopted by Congress Party to get rid of British Emperor in India; Information on uncensored documents received by the U.S. government showing the correspondence between Gandhi and an Indian Viceroy; Plea made by Gandhi that the arrest of Congress leaders and followers should not be condemned to prison without trial; Recommendations made by Congress Party for a solution to overcome current political problems in India.

Focuses on the significance of Indian politician Jawaharlal Nehru regarding political situation in the country. Prevalence of suspicion and bitterness in the political atmosphere in India; Appointment of Nehru by political leader Mahatma Gandhi as his successor; Views of Nehru on the world situation; Information on family background of Nehru; Influence of Great Britain on the philosophy of Nehru; Position of the United Nations while Nehru was in jail; Role of British politician Winston Churchill on political situation in India.

Little news has come out of India during the past two months. Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru is silent behind prison walls and if the people continue to demonstrate on the streets, papers have not reported it. But silence does not necessarily imply submission. India still boils with frustration and unrest. It is the scene of one of the most dismal political failures of the United Nations and Japanese machinations are working to turn that failure into victory for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The central figure in the Japanese campaign is Subhas Chandra Bose, beloved by millions of Indians who remember him as a fiery patriot and leftist leader.

The article presents discussions on various topics. The recent political crisis in India will seem less startling and more intelligible. Two of the seven provincial cabinets which the Indian National Congress won in the elections last year have resigned. They did so after the British governors vetoed a move to release political prisoners in those areas. Although only forty-one prisoners were actually involved, the incident has crystallized those crucial divisions within the Indian Congress. When the Congress, after bitter internal controversy, yielded to the plea of the moderates for participation in the government, the radial wing asserted its skepticism of the result. It predicted arbitrary exercise of the safeguard power retained by Great Britain, allegedly for use in emergencies only.

The failure of the Simla, India, conference and of Lord Archibald Wavell's efforts to reconstitute his Executive Council to include acknowledged Indian leaders was not unexpected. It must not be taken to mean that the Indians cannot get together or that India is not fit for self-government. To the question of self-government or freedom for India the Wavell plan had no relevance. It made no change in the constitutional set-up, as the White Paper itself acknowledged. The Viceroy retained his absolute power in the shape of the veto. The checkerboard of princes and princelings was kept, and they remained beyond the jurisdiction of the Executive Council. The WavelI plan was purely at interim measure, without prejudice, as it said, to the future constitution of India. Indian political leaders envisaged all that was the replacement of the political pariahs who constitute the present ExecutIve Council.

Analyzes the policy of Great Britain in relation to India, with special reference to the imprisonment of followers Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi. Reasons why the imprisonment is unjustified; Idealism professed by the government which has thrown these people into prison; Naivete inherent in the behavior of the Indians; Need for the British government to seek a political solution; Challenges faced by the Labor government in the situation it has inherited; Significance of various conferences to be held in London.

Focuses on the political situation of India under the British rule. Resolutions along the old constitutional lines passed by Moderates who recently met in Madras, with petitions to the British Parliament; Probability that moderate programs of Indian intellectuals will not be accepted in London, England; Doctrine of "non-violence" followed by nationalist leaders Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi; Attitude of youth towards the non-violent doctrine of Gandhi; Verbal expression of loyalty to the British rule by the Indian princes; Information on national movements against the British rule in India; Possibility of an offer of a responsible government by the British Parliament; Demand of racial equality by Mahatma Gandhi; Factors on which independence of India depends.

The article focuses on politics and governance in India in 1929. The Indian National Congress pledged itself, unless the dominion status should be granted by Great Britain within the year, to set in motion a nationwide campaign of passive disobedience, with the object of attaining not the status of a dominion, but absolute independence.

Points out that two dangers threaten the direct rule of the British in India. New danger from the Labor party; Old danger from the Hindus themselves; Experimental reform of the constitution; Later changes unavoidable with the Hindus incessantly arguing that a commission be appointed, or some alternative adapted, long before 1929; Possibility that the Labor Party will gain control in the British Government; Strategy of Lord Birkenhead to prevent problems with the Hindus.

The Britishers consider that they have established a "good form of government" in India. Yet within the past three months they have passed more stringent legislation against sedition than any other country in the world; such legislation can be possible only where there is bad government. The Rowlatt Commission, under the guidance of Judge J. Rowlatt, of London, with a few Englishmen and one Indian, spent many months investigating revolutionary conspiracies in India. Their investigations were largely confined to police records; never did they, according to their own confession, consult the public, for whose safety the Commission ostensibly undertook their work.

Focuses on the revolution in India against the British rule and its significance to the U.S. Importance of the Indian problem to the United Nations; Suppression of the Indian revolution with ruthless force by the British government; Effect on China if India is made perfect for a Japanese invasion; Attitude of the American press and radio commentators towards the situation.

Discusses the fate of British Cabinet Secretary Sir Stafford Cripps's mission for the settlement of discontent among Indians against the British government in India. Conditions for the settlement that the British but the Americans as well must understand that the end of white empire in Asia is reached; Information on the tenacious insistence by the Indian leaders that the passage of the United Nations to victory must be through the freedom of India; Fact that the British cannot be stripped of their military control; Likely possibility of the failure of the plan providing for the Balkanization of India; Availability of the solution that will place will place administrative control in an Indian civilian head, and actual operations in the hand of the British; Viewpoint of the American people regarding the Cripp's mission.

Focuses on political and economic conditions in India. Reason behind the loyalty of princes toward the British government; Absence of the wholehearted enthusiasm among Indians who are fighting with self-respect for their own land and their own freedom; Lack of industrial development; Opinion of the Congress Party and Muslims regarding their cooperation with the British government; Explanation given Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi about his tactics of passive protest; Refusal of Indian statesman Mohammed Ali Jinnah to consider any plan of federal unity for India based on democratic principles.

Comments on the rising nationalistic sentiment in India. Decision of statesman Mohandas Gandhi to withdraw support for the British government in her war with Germany; Increase of the influence of the National Congress Party; Demand for the formation of democratic government by Hindu officials; Opposition against the deployment of Indians to fight for Great Britain; Concern of Gandhi in uniting Hindu and Moslem communities.

Focuses on problems faced in the political organization of India after getting independence from the rule of Great Britain. Issues on the control of power being transferred to India as one or between Indian and Pakistan; Equal majority won by the Moslem League and the Indian Congress; Difference in attitudes of the Congress and the League over the settlement of the issue; Proposal of compromise given by the Congress; Refusal of Indian statesman Mohammed Ali Jinnah to enter either an interim national government or an All-India Constituent Assembly; Suggestion of Jinnah that territorial lines of India and Pakistan must be drawn.

Presents information on the political career of Indian physicist freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. Report by the Japanese News Agency that he had received serious injuries in a plane crash and had died; Factors that made him rise to power in India; Conclusion by Bose during his trip from Berlin to Japan that the large number of Indians in the Japanese-held areas of Southeast Asia provided the nucleus for a strong outside force to fight for India's cause against the British; Formation of the Azad Hind government for a free India; Demonstrations by Indians after receipt of the second report of Bose's death; Representation of the extremist elements in the country by Bose.

Reports on the announcement by British Prime Minister Clement Atlee on immediate action to free India. Notice issued by Atlee to Moslem League that its demand for Pakistan will not be permitted to stand in the way of the will of the majority; Obstacles in the establishment of self-government in India due to various divisions held by British Tories; Trial of leaders in the Indian National Army for collaboration with the Japanese in Burma and Southeast Asia; Riots in Calcutta, Bombay and other places showing the disloyalty of Indian armed forces towards British commanders; Skepticism of Indian leaders towards Atlee's announcement.