Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospective flag is the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain since 1922 and a leading member of "the Buckingham Palace clique." In respectful terms of loyalty, devotion, Lord Cromer declined last week to be appointed Governor General of Canada in succession to Viscount Willingdon who will soon go as Viceroy to India (TIME...
However, with the release of the radical Indian Congress chiefs by the Viceroy there is every indication that a left wing will be formed which will strongly oppose the findings of the Round Table Conference. If England does not grant general amnesty to all political prisoners, if the boycott of British goods is continued, and if Gandhi decides to renew his former opposition and seek complete liberty or none, then the negotiations that have filled the last few months have accomplished little...
...things of the first magnitude were done last week by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, whilom Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21) and Viceroy of India...
After the War Lord Reading returned to the India of his cabin boy days as viceroy. Events obliged him to detain both the "Ali Brothers" (Mohammedans) and Mahatma Gandhi in jail, also to impose the hated salt tax against the will of the Indian Assembly, but his "judicial fairness" is remembered. In 1926 he attained the marquessate, may die a duke...
...About Face. After three years labor as Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, Sir John Simon- a great & good Liberal friend of Lord Reading-reported that India's states were not yet ready to become a federated union, and that the power of His Majesty's Viceroy must remain unhampered and supreme. The only important concessions recommended by the Simon Report had to do with granting a mite more freedom to the provincial governments in British India (TIME, June...