CABLE  FROM  MADAME CHIANG
 
KAI-SHEK TO LAUCHLIN  CURRIE
 
                                                                                                       May 31, 1942
     
    RECENT RELIABLE INFORMATION FROM INDIA SHOWS INTERNAL SITUATION
 
WORSENING. MAHATMA GANDHI LAUNCHING AROUND MIDDLE JUNE NON-
 
VIOLENT NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT AIMING AT COMPLETE BREAKDOWN 
 
ALL COMMUNICATIONS RAILWAYS PUBLIC UTILITIES TO OUST BRITISH RULES.
 
MOVEMENT WILL BE STRONGER THAN ALL PREVIOUS ONES AND MORE THAN 
 
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. IF INDIA GOVERNMENT PUT GANDHI UNDER ARREST THIS 
 
WILL AROUSE ANGER OF WHOLE COUNTRY. HE WILL NOT HESITATE TO GO INTO 
 
FAST UNTO DEATH CAMPAIGN TO ATTAIN OBJECTIVE. IF HE DIES WHOLE INDIA 
 
WHICH WORSHIPS HIM AS GOD WILL PROBABLY RISE IN REVOLT. AT HIS WORDS 
 
ALL VILLAGES ESPECIALLY CENTRAL INDIA WILL BE IN POSITION FRUSTRATE 
 
EXISTING WAR PLANS ACTIVITIES AND THUS AFFECT ENTIRE CAUSE UNITED 
 
NATIONS IN THIS PART ASIA.
 
         RECENT LETTERS FROM NEHRU SHOW THAT DESPITE ALL HE CAN DO 
 
INTERNAL REVOLUTION BREWING AS ANTI-BRISTISH FEELING GAINING 
 
MOMENTUM. HE THINKS ONLY WAY GAIN INDIAN PUBLIC SUPPORT OF WAR IS 
 
DECLARATION BY UNITED NATIONS OF INDIA INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-
 
DETERMINATION BY UNITED NATIONS OF INDIA INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-
 
DETERMINATION. HE WRITES "TIME IS PART NOW WHEN SOME CLEVER 
 
FORMULA ACCEPTABLE TO BRITISH AND INDIA CAN BE DEVISED. POPULAR AS I 
 
AM WITH MY PEOPLE THERE IS SO MUCH ANTI-BRITISH FEELING NOW THAT I
CANNNOT POSSIBLE GET ANYTHING DONE WHICH IGNORES INDIA'S 
 
INDEPENDENCE SELF-DETERMINATION.