Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once it was not emphasized that many prominent British males, including most of the King's brothers, are expert fancy knitters, samples of whose work are exhibited in Britain occasionally in peacetime. The London Daily Telegraph & Morning Post, close to Downing Street, emphasized rather the feminine side...
...Turks-Mohammedans against Mohammedans-and in France against the Germans-Aryans against "Aryans"-British Secretary of State for India Edwin S. Montagu announced in Parliament that His Majesty's grateful Government was in favor of the "development of self-governing institutions ... in India." But there was a catch: Britain herself must judge "the time and the measure" of each step towards dominion status...
...time has been long, the measure small. India is still an Empire, with Britain's King its Emperor. Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest...
...declaration made the comparatively unified and politically entrenched Congress hot as chutney. Mahatma Gandhi, who had lately been Britain's friend, observed bitterly that "the old policy to divide and rule is to continue." The Congress's left wingers, whom Gandhi had purged for the sake of compromise with the Viceroy, vociferously demanded a civil-disobedience campaign...
...them the party has a majority, in one other a strong minority. First move would be for those nine to get a vote of censure of Lord Linlithgow's statement from their respective legislatures ; then resign. After that would begin widespread civil disobedience which might cut off Britain's supply of Indian raw materials. This week, Congress orders went out to the nine strong governments to set machinery moving which might do as much to dislocate Britain's Empire as Herr Hitler's war machine...