Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim hopes that the conference might succeed were based last week on a plan to be offered by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, as an alternative to the recommendations of the Simon Report (TIME, June 30 et seq.). It was expected that Lord Irwin would urge an extension of the system of "dyarchy." Under this system the less important provincial offices of the Government of India are administered by natives, all the really vital departments, such as Police, being "reserved." To carry "dyarchy" a little further would be an important concession from the British point of view, would...
Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...Dizzy Heights." With the deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...
...Jail Diplomacy." In London the Rothermere (yellow Conservative) press screeched that "Lord Irwin's jail diplomacy has failed!" and decorous Conservative papers said the same thing less neatly. The Laborite Daily Herald, worried, took refuge in a Palmerstonian phrase, observed that the Viceroy "reluctantly but perforce will now be unable to contract the latitudes of executive discretion"-i. e., "jail diplomacy" is to continue...
...Viceroy's Plan. From the "dizzy heights" of Simla a brief cable pictured Viceroy Lord Irwin as "laboring night and day" to whip together "a proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...