Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours earlier George V had assented, as Emperor of India, to what was about to be done. His assent had been cabled by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. Making grotesque patterns of light and shadow, the flashlight danced about the bungalow until it picked out sleeping St. Gandhi who stirred, awakened blinking, grasped the situation at once and quietly observed...
Rather sheepishly the magistrate explained that St. Gandhi was not being "arrested." After much delving the smart advisors of the Viceroy had unearthed an ordinance 103 years old. Under article 25 of this disused law it is still the absolute prerogative of the Crown to incarcerate under "personal restraint'' in India, "anyone against whom there may not be sufficient grounds for institution of judicial proceedings, or against whom such proceedings might not be adapted to the nature of the case." Foreign statesmen could but humble themselves again at this fresh proof of the British "genius for government...
...Peshawar recently was "unsatisfactory"-that is, these Hindu troops disobeyed their British commander's order to fire on a Hindu mob. With unrest seething hotter and hotter all over India it was no mean proof of Baron Irwin's iron nerve and fitness for the post of Viceroy that the saintnapping was accomplished with such masterly finesse...
...Gandhi boycott against British goods reached such proportions that the Japanese Government railways cut freight and railway rates to speed goods from Japanese factories to boats destined for India, so that Japan may get all possible business while the getting is good; 2) His Majesty's Viceroy, Baron Irwin, accepted the "protest resignation" of the Speaker of the Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted...
Plantagenet itself is not so great a name in Britain now as Isaacs. When Rufus Daniel Isaacs retired, upon receiving his present rank of Marquess of Reading (TIME, May 3, 1926), he had been Viceroy of India and Lord Chief Justice of England. He ranks today as the foremost Liberal "elder statesman." And last week the Empire was again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general...