INDIA: Tightrope Diplomacy

"The time is not far away when India . . . will be found in the ranks of our allies," recently boasted Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, head man of the Nazi Colonial League. What the blustering Junker overlooked was the fact that, although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer...

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