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...Indian command (see p. 19), waited in the heat for London to make up its mind. A U.S. air mission had arrived, the first tangible sign that U.S. fighters might join in India's defense. They too waited for London's words. And in New Delhi the Viceroy, who rules India for Britain, also waited...
...duty of the British Government to take every possible step to promote Indian agreement." But the report went further, said exactly what the Labor Party would do to begin with: 1) as an earnest of Britain's future good intentions, it would give all posts in the Viceroy's Executive Council of 14 to Indians (who now hold only nine posts, excluding those of finance and defense); 2) the Council would immediately take steps toward the drafting of a new Indian constitution, to be ratified after...
Fifteen months ago India's Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, made a desperate bid for Indian cooperation in the Empire war effort by setting up a kind of Cabinet, an Executive Council, eight of whose 13 members were "distinguished and representative Indians." Neither the Congress nor the Moslem League were consulted in the move, and both have since freely charged that all key jobs in the Council went to Britons, that the Indians picked were tried-&-true yes-men for the British...
Died. Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 74, Governor of Bombay (1913-19), Governor of Madras (1919-24), Governor General of Canada (1926-31), Viceroy and Governor General of India (1931-36); of pneumonia; in London...
...effort to get on with the war in spite of the fact that India's politicians still refuse to wait till war's end for India's promised dominion status, the British Raj last week appointed seven "distinguished and representative" Indians to posts in the Viceroy's Executive Council...