In India, sympathetic Sir Stafford Cripps could sound out all factions privately, work toward compromises all around. He would do so with a veteran lawyer’s tact as well as high minded ambition.

They said, “India is already free, we cannot keep her down anymore.” They finally thought that they would give freedom and sent Sir Stafford Cripps to discuss with the Indian people how India should ...

CRIPPS, ADVOCATE EXTRAORDINARY—Patricia Strauss—Duell, Sloane & Pearce ($3). Last month gaunt, radical Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons Sir Richard Stafford Cripps K.C., P.C ...

Winston Churchill favoured letting Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike, newly published Cabinet papers show. The UK's WWII prime minister thought India's leader should be treated like anyone else ...

In 1940, Labour heavyweights Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps were appointed to Churchill’s coalition government, which made them complicit in the forced famine of three to four ...

When Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the British War Cabinet, came to India in 1942 to hold discussions with the Congress and the Muslim League and enlist their support against a Japanese ...

Churchill initially wanted to go to India himself to negotiate this. However, Sir Stafford Cripps was chosen, given his friendships with the Indian National Congress leaders.

Its major figures, amongst them Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps, were appointed to Churchill’s coalition government, which made them complicit in the forced famine of three to ...

He would generally be out for lunch and return for dinner. Indira Gandhi, his daughter, was not in India at that time, and we were the only guests. We had long discussions with Pandit Nehru though we ...

With World War II raging, the beleaguered British government needed the cooperation of its colonial subjects. With this in mind, in March 1942, a mission led by Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in India to ...