Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rail with St. Petersburg. Preferably the line should run direct, cutting from Vladivostok straight across North Manchuria, then Chinese. Five years later China's wicked old Empress Dowager sent to Nicholas II's coronation an ancient Chinese with a world-great name and an itching palm, the Viceroy Li Hung-chang...
Half a million solid gold Russian rubles ($250,000) soothed Viceroy Li's palm before he consented to a means by which Russia might build her imperialistic railway across what was after all part of China. Created was a dummy Russo-Chinese Bank which built the railway chiefly frorn the proceeds of bonds sold to small, thrifty Frenchmen who, 37 years after, are still screaming for their money...
...Churchill, snorting with impatience, jumped up to shout that "Mr. Baldwin made up his mind on India three years ago! . . . More recently the Viceroy. Lord Willingdon, has told us that the only party that could work this scheme is the Indian Congress party [of Mahatma Gandhi]. And where are the Indian Congress party? They are in jail! Are we to place the loyal police under the control of the very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have...
Protesting. His Highness made a dramatic entrance into his capital city barefoot, holding a large basin of Ganges water over his head. Even this did not affect the stony British Government. As a last resort he telegraphed the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, for permission to postpone his departure till Friday-much more propitious astrologically. This too was refused. His Highness left on Monday...
Died. Sir Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 64, onetime (1916-21) Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...