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...Downing's racehorse Northdrift: the November Handicap, at Manchester, England, on a muddy track and in a fog so thick that no one except the jockeys saw the middle of the race. To the dismay of speculators in the $10,000,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, the Aga Khan withdrew his favorite, Ut Majeur, just before the start, because he thought Ut Majeur's weight handicap, 43 lb. greater than Northdrift's, was too much for a slippery track...
...Conference had not touched the red-hot question of India's status. The Conference had touched, and showed signs of splitting on the question of Hindu-Moslem representation in the new legislature. India's 70,000,000 moslems are "the largest minority in the world." When the Aga Khan, No. i Indian Moslem, left London for Paris (he has a home in Paris) last week, it was rumored and denied that he was not gone "for the holidays" but to India for momentous consultations. Stock reasons why Britain must hold India: 1) "she cannot relinquish her trust...
...Aga Khan, His Highness the Aga Sultan, Sir Mohammed Shah (Chairman of the British Indian Delegations, famed as the British-subsidized descendant of Fatima [daughter of Prophet Mohammed] who has kept millions of his faith quiet for years...
...Highness later refused to deny a sensational story by Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing that the Aga Khan, bursting the bonds of his bought allegiance, privately declared to fellow Indians last week that either St. Gandhi ought to be let out of jail and brought to London or the Conference ought to move to India...
Before the Conference divided to work in committees, Hindu Brahman Moonje with the Mohammedan Aga Khan and princes of both persuasions signed an epochal private pact of alliance with Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar representing India's 45,000,000 lowly Untouchables (lowest class...