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...goes-allowing for each country's particular brand of red tape -with most of our correspondents. In India, the most useful document is a press pass to the Viceroy's house, which, although outdated now, still gets you anywhere (even into Gandhi's untouchables colony) and proves helpful during riots. In Buenos Aires, each government and municipal department has its own special pass for admittance. Great Britain, on the other hand, requires only two cards (national identity and alien registration) to work there...
...Constituted themselves a cabinet with joint governmental responsibility with the British Viceroy...
Meanwhile the Viceroy, Viscount Wavell, appointed the Executive Council which is to take over next month from the present "caretaker" government, pending India's full dominion status. Five of the 14 seats were reserved for Moslems, but since Jinnah's Moslem League has refused to participate, Wavell appointed nonLeague Moslems. One of these, Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, who clung to his British title and resigned from the League three weeks ago, was attacked apparently by co-religionists at Simla at week's end, stabbed seven times, hospitalized...
After 14 weeks India still had a government that did not represent India's major political groups. The day the mission left, Viceroy Lord Wavell appointed a temporary "caretaker" government of eight officials of the Raj (seven had been knighted in His Majesty's service, only two were Indians). The biggest step forward had been agreement by both the Congress Party and Moslem League to accept Britain's long-term plan for an Indian constitution providing a central federal government (to please the Congress Party) with strong local autonomy (to please the Moslem League). Election of delegates...
...Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia. But he was only scouting for Sir Wilfrid Eady's 16-inch, or Treasury mission which arrives this week. Sir Montague Eddy had come along to advise on railroads. And if the knights needed any help, there was the Marquess of Linlithgow, ex-Viceroy of India, now missioning in Argentina for the Midland Bank...