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...with him. He went home supposing that politically everything was all right, and found that his dog was dead. Meanwhile raging Indian editors from Calcutta to Bombay were tearing out the whole front page, setting up in their biggest, blackest, angriest type such screamers as: EARL RUSSELL VOIDS THE VICEROY'S PLEDGE! REFUSES INDIA DOMINION STATUS!! OUR REPRISALS JUSTIFIED !!! In hundreds of irate editorials the Earl-Under-Secretary was quoted as saying: "It will not be possible to grant Dominion Status to India for a long time to come...
...ticklish Indian policy. There is little doubt that Scot MacDonald wants to give India the semi-independent status of Canada, but he does not dare. His majority in the House of Commons is too slim to risk on the Indian issue. Therefore, the canny Scot prompted the Viceroy, Baron Irwin. to make a carefully weaseled proclamation (TIME, Nov. 18). Some of it was supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some of it was supposed to reassure Englishmen that nothing of the kind is likely to happen. The archives of the Empire bulge with records...
...defy, despite the would-be liberal policy of James Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister's hands have been tied by opposition in the House of Commons, and the British Government has in fact done nothing to meet Indian aspirations. There have been commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded...
India Mishandled? Liberals and Conservatives moved upon the Government in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords apropos a proclamation made at New Delhi by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. His actual words were merely to repeat to Indians the pledge (which every British Government has made for a decade) that some day the Indian Empire will be granted full "dominion status" with a self-governing Parliament like Canada...
...work trying to decide just how much or how little more freedom India should be given, not "someday" but soon. The charge against the MacDonald Government last week was that they had tried to stampede the Simon Commission into making a lenient report by ordering the Viceroy to issue a proclamation in effect anticipating the Commission's verdict...