845.00/1962: Telegram
The Officer in Charge at New Delhi (Merrell) to the Secretary of State
New Delhi, May 26,
1943—7 p.m.
[Received 9:52 p.m.]
[Received 9:52 p.m.]
366. Reference my No. 365, May 26, 6 p.m. It is presumed that Gandhi’s letter was a response to Jinnah’s statement. The communiqué appears to be an additional indication that the Government of India does not desire a solution of the deadlock.49
Merrell
- On May 27 the Adviser on Political Relations (Murray) forwarded this telegram to Under Secretary of State Welles and to the Secretary of State with the comment: “As you will note, the attached telegram, which has just come in from New Delhi, confirms the views which I expressed to you in a memorandum sent to you early this morning [not found in Department files] to the effect that the present attitude of the Government of India is to prevent rather than effect a solution of the political deadlock in India.”↩