Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they implied a brand new concept of Empire strategy. Since the Suez Canal was opened (with Britain as a major shareholder since 1875 by Disraeli's finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape...
...been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer to Melbourne, Australia than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater thus to rearrange the contents of their minds and fix on a new lifeline of Empire is fundamentally significant, "imperial and oceanic...
Swift to snub Haile Selassie by sending diplomatic regrets were the U. S., Russia, France, Germany, Japan, the Little Entente, all the Scandinavian and Balkan States, and five of the 20 Latin American republics, plus all the British Dominions, vice-regal India and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain Eden excused himself by saying that he had to make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine...
Britain was not feeling conciliatory. Publicly in the House of Commons last week Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson charged Italy not only with fomenting the anti-Jewish, anti-British rioting in Palestine, but with spreading anti-British propaganda in India...
...Naini Tal, India, Sir Gulab Singh Bahadur, 33-year-old Bandhvesh Maharaja of Rewa, shot his 501st tiger, claimed a world record...