Churchill rejected the conventional wisdom that movements for “national self-determination,” were voices for freedom. Since the Versailles treaty, he believed, they had proven rather to be a formula for chaos. (查看原文)
Nehru had always believed the Muslim League was an artificial creation of the British, as part of a divide-and-rule policy. When the British left, the majority of Muslims would surely come flocking back to the Congress. “We will all march together and ask for independence together,” he said confidently in January. “There will be a united India and there will be no problem at all.” For his part, Jinnah called Nehru “Peter Pan,” the boy who had never grown up. He saw Nehru’s program as simply a blind for establishing a Hindu majority dictatorship. (查看原文)
作者: Arthur Herman 副标题: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age isbn: 0091797160 书名: Gandhi and Churchill 页数: 736 定价: GBP 25.00 出版社: Hutchinson 出版年: 2008-10-2 装帧: Hardcover
