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...moment the rice would go around. Bengal's harvest had been good, Viceroy Lord Wavell's speed-up of food transport effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would...
Said Food Secretary R. H. Hutchings: "Bengal now has ample food. . . ." Added Calcutta officials: "Famine mortality is now down to 30 per day." By last week it was beyond dispute that Viceroy Wavell had done a good eleventh-hour job on an almost hopelessly bungled situation. He had brought an old soldier's efficiency to bear in the distribution of foods among the starving...
Reuters has demonstrated many times that it can provide tough competition: on such big wartime stories as General Wavell's appointment as Viceroy of India and Sir Stafford Cripps's resignation from the British War Cabinet, both of which were handled on a "hold for release" basis, Reuters inexplicably scored first. Now, by either hook or crook, Reuters had done it again. Looking at the past, U.S. newsmen looked at their future prospects for Government-controlled news with foreboding...
...public aware that Field Marshal Lord Wavell had mounted the golden throne. Within jasper-columned Durbar Hall, he had taken the three great oaths: 1) the oath of allegiance to King-Emperor George VI; 2) the oath as Governor-General of British India; 3) the oath of Viceroy representing the Crown to the autonomous Indian States. In that nine-minute ceremony, he had also attained a sumptuous $10,000,000 palace; a job paying in salary and expenses about $280,000 a year; the top appointive post in all the British Empire's glittering hierarchy; direct power unrivaled...
...Bellies. Heaviest of the burdens was the oldest one-the weight of India's 390,000,000 Moslems and Hindus of many castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure...