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...slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some of it was supposed to reassure Englishmen that nothing of the kind is likely to happen. The archives of the Empire bulge with records of such so-called "English Frauds," most of them successful-for example an "Oath of Fealty" to King George has been adroitly palmed off on the Irish Free State Parliament, members of which would choke...
...such a statement the English mind sees no trace of hypocrisy. The absurdity of implying that Indians are the subjects of Englishmen rather than of the King alone is easily passed over. And in the London press last week Earl Russell received credit for having ably sidestepped a faux pas. In intelligent Indian circles it was fully realized, however, that the nice man who had sat up all night with his dog and was woozy-headed afterward has admitted to saying something which, if it means anything, means exactly what he denies having said-namely that it will be some...
...independence of India has just been proclaimed by potent Mahatma Gandhi at Lahore (see col. 3). Last week Englishmen were doubly vexed by almost exactly similar news from Cairo. There Mustapha Nahas Pasha, whose Wafd Party has just swept the country and won the Egyptian Parliamentary Election by a majority of more than 19 to 1 over their combined opponents, addressed the following letter to fat King Fuad, notoriously a British puppet...
...holds every Polish middle-distance record from 800 to 10,000 metres and last summer beat Nurmi at Warsaw, letting him set the pace and then, as others have done, passing him in the last hundred metres. In London last July he tried to beat all the best Englishmen the same day ard nearly did it. Beavers beat him at four mile and Cyril ("The Great") Ellis at a mile, principally because proud Petkiewicz tried to keep ahead of all competitors throughout each race, wasting his strength by sprinting against runners who would be used up a little further...
With babe on knee George V rode through a mile of fluttering women's handkerchiefs and hearty Englishmen's cheers. At the Palace he kissed Betty goodbye, shut her firmly into the limousine, ordered the chauffeur to drive to the house of her parents, the Duke and Duchess of York (No. 145 Piccadilly). As Baby Betty waved out the back window, George V firmly marched up the stair to the royal apartments...