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...Table Conference struggled on in London last week, snagged on the question of future representation of Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor Prime Minister...
Mother. The Dictator's rear is Tiflis. His mother lives there in two rooms of what was once the palace of Tsar Nicholas' viceroy of Georgia-the land where Stalin was born. Primarily the palace is now occupied by the Soviet government of the transCaucasian Republic, plastered with posters and slogans relating to the Five-Year Plan. Correspondent Knickerbocker was told that Georgian schoolchildren speak of Stalin as "the man who annexed Russia to Georgia...
...Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs (former Viceroy of India, representing the British Liberal Party...
...reference to the distinction between the "Native States," each ruled by a feudatory prince like the speaker, and "British India," ruled directly by the Viceroy. The latter is a political sea in which the former are feudal islands...
Exactly opposite is the tone of the Irwin Plan. The viceroy, a kindly Englishman, gives reign to his emotions, urges that "we spare no efforts and even take some risks," admits that "it would be a grave mistake to underestimate [the] force or depreciate [the] value" of St. Gandhi's movement, concludes, "[I] have endeavored to point the way to ... place upon the constitution the first definite impress of Dominion status...