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Gloomy Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, found her delightful. After he divorced his first wife, she became his weekend party hostess at Mereworth Castle in Kent...
...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
...British Government offered an
administrative bolus to its No. i political ward case-India. From his
palace in New Delhi, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India,
broadcast a new proposal to break the country's three-year political
deadlock and put her "on the road to self-government." In London,
Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced the proposal to
an approving Parliament. High points:
Miffed. U.S. plane manufacturers were hopping mad at a report that Britain was frowning on a sale of five Douglas DC-25 to the Misr (Egyptian) Airlines. Airmen heard that Britain's Minister for Civil Aviation, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Swinton, had warned the Egyptians that their blocked sterling account in London could not be tapped for U.S. airplanes...
...Imperative. Before the new plan can be put into effect, the Congress party and the Moslem League must agree to equal representation in the Executive Council. The Moslems, who are outnumbered by the Hindus, like this idea.* Bhulabhai Desai, Congress leader in the Assembly (TIME, March 19) with whom Viscount Wavell reportedly discussed this question, hopes that the Congress party will also agree. But diehard nationalists may hold out against British control of finance and of defense...