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Obedient Disobedience. The Viceroy of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow, had warned the Mahatma that civil disobedience and speeches against the war would not be tolerated. Crafty Gandhi ordered his people not to make such speeches. Then, week after week, one by one, his followers would ostensibly set out for some remote village to make a speech. Before each one left, Congress headquarters would call British officials and announce that in keeping with the Mahatma's orders they wished to report the forthcoming act of disobedience. As the disobedient one was about to leave he would be arrested...
...first place, the label-conscious U. S. had at first given the late Lord Lothian exactly the same tags; but he had turned out first-rate. Besides, Lord Halifax had been through everything-all the way from the practice of pious imperialism as India's Viceroy, to its desperate defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil...
Cause of the revised regulation was presumably the anti-war manifesto which four U. S. Methodist missionaries in India sent to the Viceroy last winter. Said they, quoting Will Durant: "British ownership of India has been a calamity and a crime." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. But the British authorities wisely lay low, let the Methodist bishops in India (who rule 256 churches, 106,237 communicants) make the running by asking their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to recall Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin...
From India, some 11,000 Mohammedans annually make the Haj. Last November India's Moslems sizzled when the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, Hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage. When the clamor continued, the Viceroy had to yield. This year Britain had learned her lesson. With the Axis driving for the Near East, British solicitude for India's Hajis seemed likely to last for the duration...
...also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble shooter in the Empire. The British stressed the fact that their mission had been planned with collaboration and approval...