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Voices from England. In London, Food Secretary Lord Woolton said that ships were at sea bearing "thousands of tons of cereals" to India. But his words did not allay a nation's conscience. Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: "The British Raj has failed in a major test. ..." Observed the ultra-Tory Sunday Observer...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
...heartening to Jinnah last week was the formation of a coalition Moslem League ministry in the North-West Frontier Province. This brought the governments of four of the five Pakistan provinces under Moslem League domination, after a series of involved political maneuvers in which the Congressites accused the British Raj of building up Jinnah as proof that Indians cannot unite politically...
...Britain's Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery, and Viceroy Lord Linlithgow as "pukka diehards still dangling the carrot of unity before donkey-like India." Jinnah had suggested that the country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...