Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Lady Anne Hope, 25, daughter of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; and Lieutenant P. H. J. Southby, R. N., 26, aide to the Marquess, son of Sir Archibald Southby, M. P.; in New Delhi, India. After the ceremony, the Marquess, in viceregal tradition, treated 5,000 Delhi poor to a meal...
...having his troubles with Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party which last week began a campaign of noncooperation and threatened one of civil disobedience, was swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions...
Lord Linlithgow issued a statement in Delhi. It was in answer to demands from Mahatma Gandhi's Indian National Congress Party as to what was going to happen to India during the war. Was India's dominion status a war aim? Dominion status, replied Lord Linlithgow, was certainly an aim of His Majesty's Government-after the war. In London, the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India, bade Indians meanwhile to "strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood...
India. Summer capital of quasi-independent India's British rulers is storied Simla in the hills north of Delhi. Indian Army reserve officers there made ready to mobilize last week. Throughout, steaming India, air-raid precautions were taken, especially at ports, where oil tanks and factories were camouflaged. Quaintest note of the week was an article in Bernarr Macfadden's U. S. weekly, Liberty, by India's body-mortifying Mahatma Gandhi. Excerpt...
...received opened Signorina Mussolini's eyes to herself. A plainly dressed, not very pretty young girl, she was nevertheless feted everywhere she went. In Travancore, she motored 200 miles through the jungle, escorted part way by elephantcade. She was entertained by the Maharaja of Gwalior, received at New Delhi by Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India (now British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax). One Prince gave her two live tigers for her father. Her cabin on the return voyage was loaded with rare laces, a miniature temple carved in ivory, rugs, tapestries, gold & silver trinkets...