Word: viceroys
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Bombay, some time in the 1920s. Military band music. Massed cavalry. Mobs of the curious, somehow menacing in their vastness. The Viceroy and his lady are returning from England to India. As they pass through a great ceremonial arch, it fills the screen, dwarfing them and casting them, as symbols of an empire's transitory pomp, into the subcontinent's tuneless perspective...
...York. It was a cumbersome wizardry that they practiced, lumbering across Mexico or Africa in darkroom wagons. In desert heat they crawled under layers of blankets, into lightless black bags, to change their photographic plates. When a photographer named Captain Payer was taking pictures in Egypt for the Viceroy in 1863, the fellahin thought that his camera was a Pandora's box, and-that his black bellows contained cholera; they smashed the whole instrument. But the rewards of pioneering photographic work could be magic indeed. Masters of Early Travel Photography (Vendome; 352 pages; $50) is a handsome, sepia-tinted...
...despite the would-be liberal policy of James Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister's hands have been tied by opposition in the House of Commons, and the British Government has in fact done nothing to meet Indian aspirations. There have been commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite...
...which it held for 25 years but lost in the first quarter to Philip Morris (total 1982 sales: $9.1 billion). The big two, which together have about 65% of the market, are the Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola of cigarettedom, far ahead of third-place Brown & Williamson (Kool, Raleigh, Viceroy), which has 10.9%. Following those three are Lorillard (Kent, Newport, True), American Brands (Carlton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) and the Liggett Group (L & M, Eve, Chesterfield...
...question of nonviolence, the film presented only a to brief lines on Gandhi's view of nonviolence as a response to Hitler's Germany. In real life, Gandhi wrote to the Viceroy of India as Britain fell back before Nazi might: "This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man..." He also addressed a letter to the British people as a whole, counseling them to "Let them [the Nazis] take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these...