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Therefore the British have aided Nadir Khan in two ways: 1) Lord Irwin, almost on the eve of surrendering the viceroyalty of India last April, promulgated a press ordinance making it a jailable offense for any editor to publish an article adversely affecting the relationship of India with her neighbors; 2) on May 30 a fleet of 40 two-ton trucks went through the Khyber Pass laden with British-bought, condemned French rifles and ammunition for the use of Nadir's armies. Altogether in the past seven months some 22,000 such rifles, with ammunition, have been shipped...
Last week in Lahore came fruit of Lord Irwin's gag law. Murtz Ahmad Khan, editor of the (Persian-language) weekly Afghanistan, recently had published an editorial under the heading: WHY DOES NOT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN RESIGN? This violated Lord Irwin's law; Murtz Ahmad Khan was arrested, put on trial...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
...last week President Hoover arose from his luncheon in the White House and, instead of returning immediately to his office, went upstairs to his dressing room. There with the aid of Boris, his valet, he put on formal morning clothes. At 2:15 Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover knocked on his door. "The new Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square...
With all the physical prestige of a man six and a half feet tall, with all the au- thority of a peer who has just relinquished the great office of Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin told the leaders of the British Conservative Party in London last week that "the prestige of the white man in India has been lost and probably cannot be recovered...