Word: viceroy
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...vain Viceroy Lord Irwin tried to get to London some representative of the Indian National Congress or its spiritual leader St. Gandhi. These Indians, comprising the largest, most resolute, most highly organized body of Indian public opinion quietly boycotted the Conference, continued last week their non-violent demonstrations for Independence (see p. 21). St. Gandhi squatted placidly spinning in Poona Jail. Jailed also are some 30.000 Gandhites, including Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, "The Lord Mayor of the Second City of the Empire," Calcutta...
...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...Irwin Plan in one tome of 256 pages, hastily extemporized by Viceroy Baron Irwin in four months, released last week...
Supreme at Delhi. Both Sir John and the viceroy agree that Burma should be separated from the rest of India, constituted a Crown Colony under a governor appointed from London...
...There probably is no doubt that Lord Thomson thought it would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...