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Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...
...nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...
After the durbar the Khan showed the Viceroy his stud farm at Mastung. Thence Lord & Lady Willingdon hastened back east to their capital, New Delhi...
What happened next day (and indeed what happens at any time in the North-West Frontier Province) was not "news" to be lightly observed and reported by correspondents but the subject of Government handouts. According to this the Viceroy showed his "faith and trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts...
...Said His Majesty, through His Excellency's lips, "On peace and good government in the North-West Frontier Province depends in great measure the security of India. I look with confidence to the people of the province so to order their affairs that the momentous change which my Viceroy is today inaugurating will conduce to the benefit of their province and India as a whole...