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...chief Indian exponent of compromise with Britain, Liberal Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, has recently been gaining ground fast. Speaking for a group of nonparty leaders, he urges that Britain give a definite assurance of Dominion status after the war, make certain immediate changes...
Action. The Gissimo's resounding statement on India pumped electricity into India's two greatest political parties, Gandhi's Indian National Congress and the Moslem League. A conference of Indian nonparty leaders, led by liberal Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, at once passed a resolution asking Britain to declare India's position "identical with those of other self-governing units of the British Commonwealth...
Obedient to etiquette, the Emperor, after bidding his foreign guests goodby. sat down with 5,000 officers and soldiers of all ranks to a characteristic Ethiopian feast of whole sheep and oxen, served raw and warm from the kill, and washed down with heroic drafts of tej or mead. Etiquette further decrees that such a royal feast shall close with Homeric boasting...
...Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah: raised to His Majesty's Privy Council. This honor to a useful Moslem was nicely balanced by conferring the same on Hindu Lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru...
...Some young men approach the shops and listen. When they see the tej nicely presented in a row in decanters they say: 'Let us buy a piaster's worth and taste...