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Assuming that the Viceroy, who is ultimately responsible to His Majesty's Government, keeps hands off and orders the provincial governors to keep their hands off, India will have been reborn-or "unfrozen" as onetime Viceroy Viscount Halifax declared recently with enthusiasm. The native cabinets will have sway within India's vast borders and even control the police, a feature of the new Constitution which has given Tory Die-Hards the jitters. True, so great an authority as Lord Halifax has observed: "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed," but they necessarily will be formed...
Amid this rebirth and afterward for an unlimited time the Viceroy is charged by the new Constitution with what are called "duties." He has the duty of safeguarding the minority communities including the British, the duty of coping with any serious threat to Peace and the duty of ensuring the financial stability and credit of India. So that the Viceroy may do his duty, the Constitution vests him with all powers pertinent thereto. The governors of the provinces have the further duty of combatting terrorism. Pursuant to this duty any governor is empowered by the Constitution to take under...
...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
...Samuel, Viscount Willingdon the present Viceroy of India, and onetime Viceroy Lord Irwin (now Viscount Halifax) are supposed to feel that they will go down in history as "India's Abraham Lincolns," super-emancipators who have laid a basis for setting 350,000,000 Indians free under the new Constitution some generations hence...
Indians while admitting that in the provinces natives will at once have somewhat greater freedom, denounce the Constitution as "Sheer sham!" because all vital powers are reserved to the Viceroy, thus permitting Britain to keep India hog-tied indefinitely...