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Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...long awaited "peace terms" offered by Mahatma Gandhi to the British Government were duly forwarded by Viceroy Lord Irwin to London last week. Nationalist demands were reported to be simply: "Give us Dominion status and we will abandon the civil disobedience campaign...
...removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
Into the great entrance hall of the White House last week tramped overalled workmen who began to bang and hammer on the left wall. Coming out of his cubby-hole office off the hall, Irwin...
...Madrid is Irwin Boyle Laughlin collector and connoisseur of paintings. But one cannot expect a steelman (Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh) to patronize all the arts...