Which country did Cripps fail to resolve a wartime crisis in?
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Sir Stafford Cripps was sent by Winston Churchill to India in 1942 to try and resolve the wartime crisis there, but he failed to reach a settlement with the Indian National Congress. Cripps proposed that India should be granted dominion status within the British Empire after the war, but the Indian leaders rejected this, as they wanted full independence.
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