Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King's Privy Council, Earl Balfour, kneels and presents a scroll containing "The King's Speech." Slowly it unrolls between the Sovereign's fingers and he begins to read: ". . . My relations with the Foreign Powers continue to be friendly. . . . My Government . . . my Secretary of State for India . . . my Army . . . my Navy . . . my Empire...
...suite of efficiently equipped business offices at New Delhi, the capital of British India, was occupied for the first time last week by the Seven Wise Britons who had come from London to report on the possibility of granting greater self-government to India (TIME...
...with regard to violence were that at Madras British police were obliged to fire upon the mobs, killing two Indians, in order to restore order; that in Calcutta a mob of 10,000 students hurled brickbats and battled with police and soldiers who did not fire; and that throughout India numerous instances were reported in which the automobiles of British private citizens were attacked and partially smashed, though no Briton was reported killed...
...Helped or impeded, the Commission will go forward with its work. Justification of our authority in India lies in the work we have accomplished." Exuberance. Individually the hartal groups "frothed" by burning Sir John Simon and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin repeatedly in effigy, and by sending out to greet the S. S. Rawalpindi, on which the Commission reached Bombay, several "mourning barges," draped in black, flying black flags, and topheavy with zealots who screamed: "Go back! Go back...
...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...