Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plum-The Foreign Secretaryship-had to go to the man who has put through Parliament this year a measure which has necessitated Parliamentary reports and documents amounting to 20 times the length of Holy Bible: the India Bill of tall, dapper, aquiline, baldish Sir Samuel Hoare. So dubious are the merits of this measure that it has been dubbed "the Hoarefrost," but as Secretary of State for India since 1931 Sam Hoare put it through, and no other British statesman has recently done anything so big. Why Sir Sam should not now be made Prime Minister, on the theory that...
What unexpected twists or diplomatic figure eights Sir Sam may impart to Empire foreign policy Whitehall preferred not to guess. At the India Office he was noted for bullheadedness, for closing his eyes to new facts once his decisions were made, and for slogging through. Last week Sir Sam slogged his India Bill helper, the slim, grey-mustached Marquess of Zetland, into the Secretaryship of State for India he himself had just vacated. Lord Zetland wears 1910 collars, teems with anecdotes commencing "Now when I was Governor of Bengal . . .", and has a mannerism which Englishmen describe as "perpetually washing...
Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
...remain as president. Twentieth Century will move from the United Artists lot at Hollywood to the enormous Fox studio at Fox Hills. Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, who has proved his lively and eccentric skill as a producer by such films as Les Miserables, Cardinal Richelieu, Clive of India, The Affairs of Cellini, The House of Rothschild, will become a Fox vice president. The combined companies will together produce a minimum of 55 pictures a year, of which Twentieth Century, as an independent unit, will make at least a dozen. Significance of the move is that it may give...
...Fatigue India...