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...Delhi last week, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester took office as India's 19th Viceroy. The ceremony was as simple as Lord Wavell's brisk arrival by plane, as austere as the task he now faces...
...firm Viceregal program of food control could ease the tragic shortage, feed all. On-the-scene observers believe that incoming Viceroy and Field Marshal Lord Wavell must, on his arrival, take drastic and energetic action. But the soldier-Viceroy long since confessed himself to be a tired...
When Lord Halifax was Viceroy of India, he officially recognized Mohandas Gandhi as a statesman and chief Indian spokesman, allowed Indian National Congress influence to grow. Next came Lord Willingdon, who attempted to sup press the Congress, succeeded only in driving it underground. Linlithgow stood between Halifax and Willingdon, showing neither Halifax's sympathy nor Willingdon's iron hand. During his "irregime," anti-British sentiment grew in India; economic conditions did not improve; Gandhi, Nehru and some 35,000 members of the Congress party were jailed...
...august London Times and ultra-conservative Daily Telegraph wrote no editorials on the Viceroy's address. But other British newspapers did comment, and their attitude had more significance for the future than Linlithgow's righteous words...
...Daily Herald, speaking for the Labor Party, hoped the new Viceroy. Lord Wavell, "will sweep away the pompous trappings of the New Delhi Court and establish contact with the real life of India. . . . The British Government itself must take a hand. ... It must resume the initiative; reopen negotiations with representatives of the Indians; shake off the weary fatalism in which it has persisted ever since the Cripps talks failed...