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...basis of his own study of the Indian Civil Service-here exhaustively examined-Dr. Sunderland concludes that "the British government in India can, if it will, set up as its successor an Indian government with every official position in it, from Viceroy to policeman, filled by fully competent Indians, quite as competent as the men who fill the positions...
Reading, Rothermere & Beaverbrook. A Jew who became Lord Chief Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere...
Highly agitated was His Britannic Majesty's lean and dramatically tall Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, when representatives of what might be called India's "farm bloc"-the Bihar Landholders' Association -met recently, in Calcutta, and adopted a resolution demanding for British India a new Constitution "not in blind imitation of the West...
Having spoken, the tall cadaverous Viceroy stepped into his sumptuous private car and sped back to New Delhi, the glistening white and red sandstone capital of British India. There Lord Irwin busied himself in arranging a counter demonstration against Independence. Naturally it was to the Maharajas, the princes of India, many of whom are supported on their petty thrones by British might, that the Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja...
...City, now the Capital of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) was founded August 4, 1496 by Bartholomew, brother of Christopher Columbus, and is therefore, necessarily, the first permanent European settlement in the New World (incidentally it is and always has been a Capital-official residence of Spain's first Viceroy in the Americas). Francisco Pizarro was a young soldier of fortune among the early Spanish conquistadores, a contemporary of and under Columbus, who went out from Santo Domingo on his history making conquest of the Incas. WM. E. PULLIAM...