Gandhi's Letter To President Roosevelt And Reply: Article Analysis

The article I read was titled, “Primary Sources: Gandhi’s WWII Letter to President Roosevelt and Reply”, by U.S National Archives. This article was about India’s leader of Independence Mahatma Gandhi, wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII. The article stated the following points in Gandhi's letter,“Please understand that it is as a friend that I offer this plan. Britain must immediately end its rule of India. This is the only way to turn the bad feelings toward Great Britain into good ones. It will allow millions of Indians to help the Allies in this war.” meaning that Gandhi was offering a deal in which they offered to join them as allies in the war, but they could not do so because they were under British rule, in
Nevertheless, we find ourselves in the middle of a war. This war is the result of Axis powers wanting to conquer the world. Now, we are making a supreme effort to defeat those who want to take away freedom around the world.” And then later says this,”I hope that our shared interest in democracy will unite your countrymen and mine. We must join together to defeat our common enemy.” Meaning that he is conscious of what is happening right now and recognizes that they need to bring peace, freedom and order. Next, he knows that they need to do all they can in order to beat the enemies, and with this he will need to be allies with India, because then, his men and India’s men will unite to win. Kind of agreeing with the deal. After that, the main idea of the article is that Gandhi and President Roosevelt are discussing a way of becoming allies to win WWII but also have something in return, all of this is said through letters. I can prove this is the main idea because the article says that, Gandhi said,”Britain must immediately end its rule of