Word: simla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
India. Summer capital of quasi-independent India's British rulers is storied Simla in the hills north of Delhi. Indian Army reserve officers there made ready to mobilize last week. Throughout, steaming India, air-raid precautions were taken, especially at ports, where oil tanks and factories were camouflaged. Quaintest note of the week was an article in Bernarr Macfadden's U. S. weekly, Liberty, by India's body-mortifying Mahatma Gandhi. Excerpt...
...foreign cotton goods, which was mostly Japanese, to 5%, set the duty on British cotton at 25%. It did not stop the flood and Japan struck sharply back. Her spinners voted to buy no more raw cotton from India Last winter British, Indian and Japanese cotton manufacturers met in Simla, patched up a peace for India. A further cotton conference began in London on St. Valentine's Day. It failed to settle the question of Japanese exports to the world at large. Mr. Runciman's manifesto on quotas followed...
Fear that the economic struggle might lead to war caused British, Indian and Japanese delegates to meet at Simla in September for a secretive Cotton Conference at which haggling continued last week. Japan, hampered but not hamstrung, has continued to dump. Last week, according to the figures in Minister Nakajima's hands, Japan had outstripped Britain in cotton cloth exports for the first time in history. In the first eight months of this year Japan exported 1,392,000,000 square yards. Britain 1,386,000,000. Since Britain has reigned for a century and more as the world...
...Great Britain and Japan are currently in a deadly struggle for the textile markets of Asia and Europe, with India as the immediate battleground. Wages in Japan are about one-quarter of wages in Lancashire. Currently a conference is being held at Simla, but, over the long pull, there seems little hope for Lancashire...