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patriot — Bhagat Singh and his colleagues who had been sentenced to death for

causing death with bombs and pistols.

Gandhi was subjected to harsh criticism. He explained why his effort did not
succeed. But the Gandhi-Irwin Pact had proved that the people of India had

claimed and asserted their right to be regarded as equal. There was a new

pride, and the feeling that India had vindicated its right to independence.

In Britain, some were shocked that the Viceroy had agreed to talk to Gandhi on

equal terms. Winston Churchill, who later became the Prime Minister of Britain
during the Second World War, decried the "nauseating and humiliating

spectacle of this one-time Inner Temple Lawyer, now seditious fakir striding

half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, there to negotiate and to

parley on equal terms with the representative of the King Emperor."

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