Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted fortnight ago, the Commission recommends that Burma be separated at once from India proper and pursue its destiny under a British Governor responsible not to the Viceroy of India but to the King-Emperor...
...viceroy's decree making "picketing" a crime punishable by six-month imprisonment (TIME, June 9) was being flagrantly disobeyed. Weeks ago the Bombay police, engulfed by hundreds of thousands of Gandhites and under orders not to fire, became virtually helpless. Soldiers would now be tried. Marching out of their barracks at Poona-near which St. Gandhi remained imprisoned-a battalion 1,000 strong, half British, half native, entrained last week for Bombay with all the paraphernalia of war: rifles, machine guns, armored cars...
...Indian crises: 1) Gandhites intensified their "pay no taxes" campaign and taxpayers struck in some 70 towns; 2) the National Bank of India and a number of adjoining shops at Delhi burned for a $550,000 loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock...
...Sheer Force." The Federation of Indian chambers of commerce manifestoed last week to the viceroy: "There is no hope for collapse of the movement inaugurated more than two months ago by Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Two courses are open: either rule by sheer force or conciliate." The Federation recommended conciliation. But Baron Irwin from his viceregal lodge at Simla replied by issuing two new edicts: 1) making even "peaceful picketing" a crime; 2) giving those who exhort people not to pay taxes as hard punishment as those...
What the actual situation is in the Northwest Frontier Province has been a state secret since the first riot at Peshawur a month ago (TIME, May 5). Every few days the office of the Viceroy issued reassuring statements; but last week came a remarkable one that "after three weeks" His Majesty's forces had finally "reoccupied Peshawuo," capital of the province, which had not previously been known to be out of British hands. Squadrons of R. A. F. bombing planes were said to have been "highly effective" in quelling the frontier tribesmen...