Word: willingdon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly reveal that feeling-even hatred-against the British, is intensifying. The current is steadily running deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched guardedly on the 'nightmare of massacre.' "Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon, with the approval of the British Government and British Parliament in London, has set in motion a gigantic police apparatus of drastic suppression of civil rights, free speech and freedom of assembly, such as the world has not seen in many years excepting in Russia and in Italy. . . . "Two years...
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...
...Lord Willingdon well knew, Indian Nationalists were celebrating the third anniversary of St. Gandhi's declaration of independence. The Mahatma himself, rewarded for his good behavior in jail by permission to receive one visitor each week, squatted in his cell and talked to Disciple Madeline Slade about the two pounds he has gained. But outside Gandhites were far from peaceful...
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...
Immediately after the ceremony Lord Willingdon announced that a knighthood had been awarded to the British designer of the project: Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison. Undoubtedly the Lloyd Barrage will do more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...