Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constructive contribution of the week. Baron Irwin. Viceroy of India, set Oct. 20 next as the date for a Round Table Conference in London between Englishmen and Indians...
Beyond a doubt the Viceroy had advised Mr. MacDonald that St. Gandhi must be taken by surprise, lest his arrest lead to violence on the spot, and the Prime Minister had pledged both his own and his Cabinet's word to keep the secret. When it leaked out he saw red, jumped to the conclusion that he must have been betrayed by some disloyal civil servant, invoked the Official Secrets Act, ordered Scotland Yard to get the traitor...
Meanwhile the viceregal court moved from New Delhi, the expensively erected capital of British India, to salubrious Simla, the summer capital in the cool eastern Himalayas. There potent, tremendously tall Baron Irwin (the Viceroy is fully two heads taller than scrawny little St. Gandhi) received a letter in which his prisoner accused him of employing British troops in such a way as to provoke the violence which seethed last week in India...
...Dear friend," wrote Saint to Viceroy, "I know the dangers attendant upon the method adopted by me, but my country is not likely to mistake my meaning. I say what I mean and think. The only way to conquer violence is through non violence, pure and undefiled. "If, in spite of repeated warnings, the people resort to violence, I must disown responsibility and you may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer a violent revolt? "History will pronounce the verdict that the British Government, not bearing because not understanding, goaded human nature to violence, which...
...obey the Censor or cease publication. At one stroke this not only muzzled but stopped the presses of many provincial editors who dared not risk a large forfeiture plus the further risk of confiscation of their entire plants at the Government's pleasure. To stifle criticism further, the Viceroy used his imperial power to suspend for the remainder of 1930 the chief political bodies: the executive council and the legislative assembly...