Sir Churchill believed that once the war (the Second World War) had been won, there was “no obligation to honour promises made” to India and her leaders.Despite differences of opinion on Mahatma Gandhi that may exist, it would not be an exaggeration to call him the greatest apostle of peace of the last century if not beyond. Sir Churchill however disagreed, and the mere sight of the Mahatma would send him into paroxysms of rage, and to remark, “It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, … striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal palace, … to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.” As the tide of the Second World War began to turn in favor of the Allied powers, Sir Churchill believed that it “was not the time to crawl before a miserable little old man” – the “miserable little old man” being Mahatma Gandhi. On another occasion he raged that the Mahatma “ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.”