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Died. Sir Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 64, onetime (1916-21) Viceroy of India and (1924) First Lord of the Admiralty; of a heart attack; in London. A onetime Governor of Queensland and of New South Wales, he was appointed Viceroy while serving as captain of a territorial battalion in a remote corner of India. Faced with widespread native unrest, he, with the late Edwin Samuel Montagu, in 1918 sponsored the plan which brought limited home rule to India, has since been the keystone of British policy there...
...Astonishing Reading." When Rufus Daniel Isaacs first saw India as a cabin boy it was because of an unsuccessful youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that...
...Viceroy of India (1921-26) he steered a course midway between the stiffness of Lord Chelmsford and the conciliatory attitude of Lord Irwin. He was the first Viceroy to put Gandhi in jail, first to impose the despised salt tax, first to enforce the Indian Constitution...
Their chairman, Victor Alexander George Robert, second Earl of Lytton, first drew breath at Simla, the summer capital of British India, while his father was Viceroy 56 years ago. In 1925 lean, scholarly Lord Lytton was himself Viceroy of India for five months. He knows his East. Release of the Lytton Report last week stirred the deepest interest of both East and West. If the League of Nations, which sent out the Lytton Commission, now proceeds to accept its findings and back up its recommendations, the League, threatened today with financial bank- ruptcy (see p. 13), has a last chance...
...quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which the Mahatma forbade? Far more potent than the potent Kipling IF was the Gandhi IF last...