Description: 1931 newspaper MAHATMA GANDHI meets with British Viceroy re: INDIA INDEPENDENCE 1931 newspaper MAHATMA GANDHI meets with British Viceroy of India LORD IRVIN regarding the INDEPENDENCE of INDIA - inv # 2P-335 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the NY Herald-Tribune dated Feb 18, 1931. This original newspaper contains a front page heading and long report of the famous meeting of MAHATMA GANDHI and British Viceroy IRVIN over INDEPENDENCE of British-ruled INDIA. The 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' was a political agreement signed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London. Before this, Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a vague offer of 'dominion status' for British-occupied India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference to discuss a future constitution. The second Round Table Conference was held from September to December 1931 in London. "The Two Leaders"—as Sarojini Naidu described Gandhi and Lord Irwin—had eight meetings that totaled 24 hours. Gandhi was impressed by Irwin’s sincerity. The terms of the "Gandhi-Irwin Pact" fell manifestly short of those Gandhi prescribed as the minimum for a truce. Below are the proposed conditions:- Discontinuation of Salt March by the Indian National Congress Participation by the Indian National Congress in the Second Round Table Conference Withdrawal of all ordinances issued by the Government of India imposing curbs on the activities of the Indian National Congress Withdrawal of all prosecutions relating to several types of offenses except those involving violence Release of prisoners arrested for participating in the Salt March. Removal of the tax on salt, which allowed the Indians to produce, trade, and sell salt legally and for their own private use Many British officials in India, and in Great Britain, were outraged by the idea of a pact with a party whose avowed purpose was the destruction of the British Raj. Winston Churchill publicly expressed his disgust "...at the nauseating and humiliating spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple lawyer, now seditious fakir, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceroy’s palace, there to negotiate and parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor." In reply, His Majesty's Government agreed to:- Withdraw all ordinances and end prosecutions Release all political prisoners, except those guilty of violence Permit peaceful picketing of liquor and foreign cloth shops Restore confiscated properties of the satyagrahis Permit free collection or manufacture of salt by persons near the sea-coast Lift the ban over the Congress. The Viceroy, Lord Irwin, was at this time directing the sternest repression Indian nationalism had known, but did not relish the role. The British-run Indian Civil Service and the commercial community favoured even harsher measures. But Ramsay MacDonald, the British Prime Minister, and William Benn, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, were eager for peace, if they could secure it without weakening the position of the Labour government in Whitehall. They wanted to make a success of the Round Table Conference and knew that this body, without the presence of Gandhi and the Congress, could not carry much weight. In January 1931, at the closing session of the Round Table Conference, Ramsay MacDonald went so far as to express the hope that the Congress would be represented at the next session. The Viceroy took the hint and promptly ordered the unconditional release of Gandhi and all members of the Congress Working Committee. To this gesture Gandhi responded by agreeing to meet the Viceroy. Gandhi’s motives in concluding a pact with Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, can be best understood in terms of his technique. The satyagraha movements were commonly described as "struggles", "rebellions" and "wars without violence". Owing, however, to the common connotation of these words, they seemed to lay a disproportionate emphasis on the negative aspect of the movements, namely, opposition and conflict. The object of satyagraha was, however, not to achieve the physical elimination or moral breakdown of an adversary—but, through suffering at his hands, to initiate a psychological processes that could make it possible for minds and hearts to meet. In such a struggle, a compromise with an opponent was neither heresy nor treason, but a natural and necessary step. If it turned out that the compromise was premature and the adversary was unrepentant, nothing prevented the satyagrahi from returning to non-violent battle. 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