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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy towards India as a member of the Commonwealth. . . . They involve...
...three days and nights of aggressive debate, the Senate and Chamber of France finally authorized the radical Cabinet of Premier Leon Blum to reduce the value of the French franc 30% last week, but at every stage of the debate Socialist Blum was served notice that Parliament had given him no monetary free hand such as the U. S. Congress gave President Roosevelt at the time the dollar was devalued (TIME...
Devaluation and "alignment" of the franc at about 21 to the dollar and at about 101 to the pound sterling was only a fraction of what Socialist Blum, who was strongly pressed by the Communist Deputies among his supporters, had sought to obtain from Parliament. Ignoring the peasantry, the numerous artisans and small shopkeepers and the French middle classes, the Communists got the Premier to write into his bill a measure which would automatically have raised the wages of proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose...
...Finance Minister was frank to say, the French Cabinet had still to go before the French Parliament and obtain its consent for the measures about to be taken. There was in Paris none of that high-pressure invoking of a dormant "Trading-with-the-Enemy" Act by which smiling President Roosevelt suddenly authorized his dallying with gold before it could be ratified by Congress (TIME, March 13, 1933). Instead M. Auriol spoke of the Blum Cabinet's intention to safeguard War veterans on pensions and people living off their savings invested in small quantities of French bonds, by introducing...