Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Question, now safely answered in the United Kingdom, is the Indian Constitutional Question-the question whether the Indian people accept and enter into the spirit of the new Constitution enacted in 1935 by the Mother of Parliaments and sent to them from London, together with a most able new Viceroy, the banker Marquess of Linlithgow (TIME, Oct. 12 et ante). Last week George VI, new King & Emperor, labored chiefly over reports from his Indian Empire...
...words and further castigating King Edward, believe that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's wife's relatives who own the Yorkshire Post have done this at the instigation of the Prime Minister. They hear that Viscount Halifax, an eminent Churchman whom Mr. Baldwin sent to India as Viceroy some years ago, either knew in advance what the Bishop was going to say or actually put him up to it. Behind Politician Baldwin the proverbially canny Yorkshiremen discern his famed churchy wife, Lucy. They know that the Prime Minister was furious three weeks ago- when Edward VIII told the jobless...
...Hitherto only Austria had extended formal recognition. Hungary has given de facto recognition by extending to the Italian Empire the benefit of her trade treaties with the Italian Kingdom. Turkey has withdrawn her Legation from Addis Ababa, placing its affairs in the hands of the Italian Viceroy...
...example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice of the people or letting them...
...Unlike Occidental voters, under the new constitution Indians must qualify for the franchise by satisfying elaborater education and property ownership requirements. Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed numbers of Hindus (including the "depressed" classes), Moslems Britons, Indian Christians, Sikhs, Anglo-Indians, representatives of Landholders, Commerce & Industry, Labor, Woman...