GANDHI RESIGNING
LEADERSHIP OF NATIONAL CONGRESS A SENSATIONAL STEP LONDON, Dec. 30. Mr Gandhi is resigning his leadership of the Indian National Congress, states the Bombay correspondent of the ‘Daily Herald,’ who adds: “This sensational step follows five days of conferences with other leaders and the Congress Working Committee. Mr Gandhi’s insistence on a full pacifists doctrine and his determination to continue his campaign of civil disobedience proved the stumbling blocks in defining the Congress policy towards the war. Mr Gandhi himself proposes to continue his pacifist opposition to the war.” . . The Congress Working Committee is reported to have evolved a formula permitting the resumption of negotiations with Britain regarding the cooperation of Congress in the war effort, including the possibility of a national coalition Government for the period, of the war. Congress, nevertheless, doe? not abate its demands for Indian independence.
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Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 7
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