ABSTRACT
American information gained from Roosevelt’s formal, offi cial sources was generally not available to the British, and reports were based in behind-thescenes knowledge of Cripps’ negotiations. The British need to know what America heard was revealed by Halifax when he offered the State Department copies of telegrams from Linlithgow. They would give the Viceroy’s account of conditions in India from his somewhat biased perspective. Halifax then inquired whether similar material from the American Mission in Delhi could be made available to him. The answer he received was not encouraging.1
