Word: proconsulate
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...independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader, Wavell of the worldly, disciplined, cultured proconsul. Each was highmindedly and absolutely convinced of the rightness of the cause he typified. The result epitomized the present phase of the problem of India and Britain-deadlock tempered, in this case, by Gandhi's and Wavell's deep humanity...
...extent of French collaboration with Germany was signaled by the forced resignation in November of North African Proconsul...
North Africa's Proconsul Weygand is the only important foe of all-out collaboration left in the Vichy Government. By holding out against German demands in North Africa he has prevented wholesale desertions to Free Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle. His resignation or his surrender to the collaborationists would probably precipitate internal troubles and give the Germans an excuse to intervene to preserve order. It was significant that reports from Vichy included the statement: "There is no indication as to the duration of his visit-or the date of his return to Algiers...
Disappointed in his hopes of a financial post with Lord Cromer, the young proconsul returned to a lawyer's desk in London, lived through the war's disenchantments, dabbled bashfully in politics because he thought it was his duty. When his great friend and hero George V sent him to Ottawa in 1935, when he had already made an imperial name for himself as a novelist and biographer and had adjudged himself too old for a career in Parliament, John Buchan sprang into action like one of Milner's young war horses, did a difficult...
...evening paper is the Post which shrieked its way to the top under rough, tough old Fred Bonfils. Denver is also a city in which Scripps-Howard has had some of the hardest going in its career. Last week the Scripps-Howard high command picked a new proconsul for its Rocky Mountain News, prayed for a change in its journalistic luck...