Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombay, followed by closing of the Exchange "indefinitely" was a result last week of an address by Baron Irwin to both Houses of the Indian Legislative Assembly, still fuming over the Simon report (TIME, June 30 et ante). Baron Irwin said that he spoke "rather as friend than as Viceroy," referred to India as a "country," declared in ringing tones: "His Majesty's Government last year authorized me to declare that, in its view, the attainment of dominion status was the natural completion of India's constitutional growth. That declaration was made and [despite the Simon report] stands...
Throughout India the Viceroy's speech evoked from native newsorgans some friendly comment, the first that Britain has received in months. But throughout England fury was the reaction of Conservatives, irritation the reaction of Liberals...
Emergency Measures. As in the case of most concessions by masters to subject peoples, the Simon report contains qualifications such that the Viceroy and his subordinate governors could "in cases of emergency" resume substantially their present powers and put down such a movement as St. Gandhi's by the sword...
...Viceroy and The Army. In the provinces (future states) abolition of Dyarchy is expected to soothe native opinion and admit native statesmen to all ministries of the government. Eventually then, the Indian federation would be made up of locally self-governed states. But at the top of the whole pyramid the Viceroy must remain supreme, strong in his command of the army...
...India it would not include the Right of Secession. Therefore he launched his movement for Independence. If South Africa now establishes that all Dominions do and must have the right to secede, then what becomes of Sir John Simon's report and the promises of the Viceroy, both committing Englishmen to the goal of Dominion Status for India? Thus far this mealy-mouthed phrase has been mere pap for Dominions full of local pride but with no real wish to secede - most Canadians will freely deny that they have the right to do so and all Englishmen will agree...