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Lean Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, rode to the Council House at New Delhi beneath a gold umbrella last week, opened India's Legislative Assembly with these words...
Long-nosed Viceroy Lord Willingdon took time off from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
Raids. With St. Gandhi and most of the important Nationalist leaders in jail (.TIME, Jan.11). Viceroy Lord Willingdon stiffened his repressive ordinances still further. Picketing British shops was already a crime. Last week special judges were empowered to pass any sentence including sentence of death on persons convicted of violating the emergency ordinances. Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai...
Determined to crush this spirit once and for all. the Viceroy at once proclaimed four new all-India ordinances...
...London every paper except the Laborite Daily Herald (which advocates granting Indians their independence) upheld the right royal acts of Viceroy Lord Willingdon last week, particularly endorsed his arrest of Mahatma Gandhi though some editors argued that the Viceroy should have received "Gandhi" before ordering his arrest...