THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA , CHAPTER -9
CHAPTER NINE THE LAST PHASE (3) World War II The Congress Develops a Foreign Policy THE NATIONAL CONGRESS, LIKE ALL OTHER POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS in India, was for long entirely engrossed in internal politics and paid little attention to foreign developments. In the nineteen- twenties it began to take some interest in foreign affairs. No other organization did so except the small groups of socialists and communists. Moslem organizations were interested in Palestine and occasionally passed resolutions of sympathy for the Moslem Arabs there. The intense nationalism of Turkey, Egypt, and Iran was watched by them but not without some apprehension, as it was secular, and was leading to reforms which were not wholly in keeping with their ideas of Islamic traditions. The Congress gradually developed a foreign policy which was based on the elimination of political and economic imperialism everywhere and the co-operation of free nations. This fitted in with the demand ...