Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
This is proof that Gandhi is still cooperating with the Swarajists; but whether the latter will cooperate with the Government, as they have tended recently to do, will have to wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire...
After this, Lord Reading, the Viceroy, went to London. Mr. Das was to have followed. In his own words, "a favorable atmosphere had been created for further discussions...
...time he was fatally stricken (TIME, Mar. 30). The book, which takes the reader behind the scenes in India, is sure to be of great value and absorbing interest, for few men have followed the course of events in India as did Lord Curzon, him self once Viceroy of that land...
Engaged. Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon, 21, youngest daughter of the late Lord Curzon, onetime (1899-1905) Viceroy of India, and his first wife, Mary Leiter of Washington, D. C., to Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, equerry of Edward of Wales. Major Metcalfe first met Wales when the latter was touring India in 1922. Edward, impressed with Metcalfe's knowledge of horses, insisted on his becoming a member of his personal staff...