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Last year (TIME, Dec. 15, LAW) Rajah Sir Hari Singh of Kashmir fell foul of his own indiscretion and of a rascally pack of blackmailers. Having surprised him in Paris, at a moment when he was closeted in a hotel room with a certain Mrs. Robinson, they extracted $750,000 of "hush money" and promptly fell quarreling among themselves as to its disposition. In the course of as noxious a law suit as ever stank before an English judge, they introduced all the facts concerning their Oriental victim's indiscretions. And the British Government, "for the highest reasons...
Just how grave were the reasons which led to such a course on the part of the Government was recalled again, last week, when there died His, Highness Sir Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, survived by his nephew and heir, Sir Hari Singh...
From India came cables that leave little doubt that Sir Hari will succeed without opposition to a kingdom of 85,000 square miles, with immense crown estates, and an annual income of over $5,000,000. The frightened young dupe who cowered behind the alias of "Mr. A." will now be one of the five reigning princes of India who are entitled to a salute.of 21 guns outside of their own state. He will rule over the Kasparturos of Herodotus, over the land of nightingales and roses, the vales of Kashmir...
...Lahore, India, the coffin of the Maharaja, covered layer upon layer with pure gold, in which he reposed clad in a full state uniform encrusted with jewels, was followed to the cemetery by Sir Hari, barefooted, bareheaded, clad in sackcloth, wearing no jewels. It was publicly cremated while the nobles threw gold continuously into the flames. In penance for his indiscretions, Sir Hari submitted to the worst Indian indignity-the shaving off of his mustache...
...possible that these idealists have considered the harm they are causing? The benefits of teaching real English are obvious enough, but a mere statement of the disadvantages will dissuade those who would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from...