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...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...
...last July, he had two veterans of his first cruise in his hand-picked crew of ten. They were provisioned for three years. Larsen and his men sailed in part by old admiralty charts prepared by the 19th-Century explorers, in part on their own, as when they crossed Viscount Melville Sound, never traversed before by any white...
...fast talker from way back, Sandefer began his Indian operations in fine style. He made a spur-of-the-moment promise to a group of New Delhi charitarians : to give them a party at Viceroy Viscount Wavell's palace. The Viceroy proved willing. The Texan also called on Mahatma Gandhi, and offered him ten four-year Hardin-Simmons scholarships for Indians. Gandhi promptly took...
Common Sense has published a remarkable document - five letters exchanged between Mohandas K. Gandhi (then a political prisoner in the Aga Khan's palace at Poona) and India's Viceroy, Viscount Wavell. In his foreword Newsman Louis Fischer, who made the letters public, claimed that Gandhi's recent conciliatory proposal to Wavell for Indian independence (TIME, Aug. 28) was a "sequel" to this correspondence. That might or might not be true. But as historic and human documents, the letters were unique. Each of the correspondents was an arch-type-Gandhi of the saintly man turned political crusader...
Killed in Action. Captain George C. Grey, 26, Liberal, youngest member of Parliament. Elected to the House of Commons at 23 for Berwick-on-Tweed, he followed the footsteps of his late relative, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who represented the same borough at the same...