Subhas Bose (1937- 1938) [contd-3]

Among many other story of their marriage, Krishna Bose, a family member, wrote in the Illustrated Weekly of India in 1972, 

Emilie Schenkl says, that marriage between Germans and Foreigners was 

The other biographers have written that Bose and Miss Schenkl were married in 1942, while Krishna  Bose , implying 1941, leaves the date ambiguous .But the actual testimony comes from A.C.N.Nambiar who  l;ived with the couple in Badgestein briefly in 1937 and was them with Berlin during the war as Second-in-Command to Bose in an answer to a question he wrote,

It was certain that Bose had a tie to Emilie Schenkl starting from 1934 and that they were seen later in 1943 and Anita was born on 29 Nov 1942 in Vienna.They lived together in Berlin from 1941 to 1943, and we have a letter from Bose to his brother (Sarat Bose) that Emilie Schenkl was his wife and Anita was their daughter and Emilie Schenkl produced the testimony of their marriage in Dec 1937.

By Dec 1937, when Bose was in Badgetein a war was already underway in East Asia following the Japanese attack on China.Bose always spoke for Indian freedom;

The following eight days of his stay in Bitain in 1938 were a whirl of meetings, receptions and dinners with leaders of the National Govt. , Leaders of the Labour Party, and the British left intellectualsand the Indian community in Britain. On Jan, 1938 Bose spoke at a reeeption in his honour at Saint Pancras Town Hall, presided over by R.Palme Dutt, with many from the from the Indian Community and also the British left in attendance, Bose said,

In a report of the Communist Daily Worker , Bose is said to have linked India's National struggle with efforts by peoples all over the world against fascism and reaction , and stressed the Indian support for tyhe Chinese in their war with Japan,

On this occasion and on many others Bose advocated some kind of Socialist system for free India..The former Govt. of Bengal Lord Zetland, Bose had a friendly talk with Zetland., 

He was Governor of Bengal between 1917 and 1922 ageorge lansburyndSecretary of State for India between 1937 and 1940. Although a member of the Conservative Party, his belief was that Indians should be allowed to take ever-increasing responsibility for the government of the country, culminating in Dominion status (enjoyed by Canada, Australia, and other formally self-governing parts of the British Empire)

On Jan 17, 1938, Bose met Lord Zetland the former Governor of Bengal and present secretary of State for India. Zetland too wanted to know Bose's view of Communism.;

'....he said that the actual number of genuine Communist was small. He  wa himself a socialist, but thyat was a very different thing from being a Communist.'

Bose was soft spoken durin his interview with the VIPs of Great vBritain ' During this time he met  the following per;sons in Great Britain