Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru."
Mr. Phillips, who is returning to the U.S., will be equally optimistic if he expects to give the President a complete report without having talked to Mohandas Gandhi.
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