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...colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little chance of the conference accomplishing its aims, from several quarters gentle pressure began to be directed toward St. Gandhi. The S. S. Mooltan, bearing the Indian delegates, drew nearer...
...trout. Publisher Bonfils had the story of the affair printed in his newspaper. Allan Henry, younger son of President Herbert Clark Hoover, who completed in June his course at Harvard's business school, sailed for a junket in Hawaii. The following lay ill: Countess Willingdon, Vicereine of India, of dengue ("breakbone") fever, at Simla; Clifford C. ("Cactus") Cravath, city judge of Leguna Beach, Calif, who led the Na tional League in homeruns in 1913-15 and 1917-19, after a motor accident; the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V of England, after an appendectomy, in London...
...Emir was informed that his State, the only one unconfiscated in the great province of Sind, was then & there confiscated by the Government of Bombay under orders from Viscount Willingdon, new Viceroy of India...
April 18?Departure from India of retiring Viceroy Lord Irwin. Successor: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon...
...There are still some Britons - fortunately fewer in number than they were - who believe in racial superiority and in feriority," said the new Viceroy of India. the Earl of Willingdon, last week, just be fore leaving London for New Delhi. "It is not the race of a man that counts." continued the Viceroy. "It is his character. I believe that there should be no racial discrimination at all - either socially or in the selection of men for administrative posts - even the highest." As Viceroy the Earl will receive $93,440 yearly or $1,797 per week; but in Karachi last...