Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the Roy* and the Viceroy there is this difference: The Earl of Willingdon on his throne at Delhi can initiate action, decree the most drastic measures?in short, can rule. Last week the return to India of Mahatma Gandhi gave the Viceroy a chance to seem every inch a king. When Mr. Gandhi begged audience by telegram to discuss Lord Willingdon's recent ordinance suppressing free speech, freedom of assembly and virtually all civil rights in Bengal (TIME, Dec. 14), he received from the Viceregal court the telegraphic answer...
...insulting" by President Vallabhai Patel of the Gandhite Indian National Congress. Other Gandhites shouted: "This means war!" Squatting in his little tent pitched atop a Bombay tenement house, the Mahatma meditated half the night. Then loyal followers heard the scratch, scratch of his pen as he wrote to the Viceroy...
...trade loss of millions of dollars to the Empire, since it would unquestionably provoke a fresh Indian boycott of British goods. Even the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, George Lansbury, successor to James Ramsay MacDonald as Parliamentary Leader of the Labor Party, cabled from London to the Viceroy: "Many friends are profoundly disturbed by your refusal to discuss the working of the ordinances with Gandhi . . . should be treated as one whose advice and goodwill on all matters should be considered...
...memorandum declaring that "with the equivocal assistance of Mr. Gandhi and the undisguised encouragement of Vallabhai Patel, President of the Indian National Congress," a campaign of essentially Communist propaganda has been waged ever since five days after the signature last spring of the truce between Mr. Gandhi and the Viceroy, then Baron Irwin (TIME, March 16). Objects of this Red campaign appeared to the Government to be "total expropriation of landlords' property and the setting up of a peasants and workers republic...
...Canada. It is an open secret in London that he was personally picked for the viceroyalty by George V. No one objected. During the War Lord Willingdon served in India as Governor of Bombay, is typically British where Indians are concerned. Today he keeps a far tighter reign as Viceroy than did his immediate predecessor Lord Irwin, who became known as "friendly to Gandhi...