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Sidestepping the issue of passive resistance as skillfully as a temple dancer, Saint Gandhi ordered his followers to obey laws and cooperate with the Government while he visited the British Viceroy to "seek permission to preach nonparticipation in war." Nonparticipation, he warned his followers, was no prelude to mass civil disobedience, but fearing that without some action to push Indian independence the masses would desert him, he compromised: "I don't want to order civil disobedience. I favor individual disobedience." The wily Saint knew that individual disobedience, lacking organization, would amount to nothing. The independence movement, he admitted, could...
...Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun, Viscount Aithrie and Baron Hope sprained his ankle last week. The accident obliged him to cancel all engagements "involving standing or walking." But he was still able to talk, and for many weeks he had promised a most important announcement in his official capacity-Viceroy of India. Last week the lame Lord Linlithgow made his statement. It turned out to be lame...
...Viceroy made three feeble concessions: 1) the inclusion of certain "representative Indians" in the Viceroy's Executive Council; 2) formation of a War Advisory Council including delegates chosen from the native princes; 3) reiteration of the promise of a new constitution after the war. Since the "representative Indians" would be viceregal stooges hand-picked by Lord Linlithgow, and since the War Advisory Council would have no power over the Imperial General Staff, India gained virtually nothing. With Italians driving into Somaliland, and the enemy threatening Aden and therefore Britain's Near Eastern oil lines, India...
Italy's plan to join her eastern and north central holdings in Africa at Britain's expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall...
...ousted after a few months because he split it wide open over his opposition to Gandhi. Long ago most of his lieutenants had been interned, but the Government hesitated to touch him for fear of reaction. That Lord Linlithgow no longer cared about consequences indicated that the Viceroy had not much rope left to play...