ABSTRACT
The two main political organizations, the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, were committed to constitutional politics, and leading Indian politicians were prepared to wait for the British to grant substantial political progress in return for the country’s support in the war. Compared with the preponderant power of Britain and Japan in the region these German assets were meagre, but they did hold some potential. Germany’s plans rested on its ability to operate from the territory of neutral countries, where revolutionary activity could be organized and coordinated by diplomatic officials assisted by patriotic exiles. The initial phase of the arms plan had gone well, but the accumulation of such a large armoury by German agents was inevitably going to catch the attention of the American Bureau of Investigation and of Captain Guy Gaunt’s British intelligence network, making it imperative that its true purpose and destination be disguised.
