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When Lord Halifax was Viceroy of India, he officially recognized Mohandas Gandhi as a statesman and chief Indian spokesman, allowed Indian National Congress influence to grow. Next came Lord Willingdon, who attempted to sup press the Congress, succeeded only in driving it underground. Linlithgow stood between Halifax and Willingdon, showing neither Halifax's sympathy nor Willingdon's iron hand. During his "irregime," anti-British sentiment grew in India; economic conditions did not improve; Gandhi, Nehru and some 35,000 members of the Congress party were jailed...
...caravansaries puffed at their hookahs and wagged a knowing finger. Richly garbed palace servants chattered in the courtyards. In Bombay's Willingdon Club the smart set gushed about it over chotapeg. The talk even slid through the lacelike alabaster screens in the harems. In the midst of internal revolution, with a Japanese invasion threatened, His Highness the Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("Junior" to American friends) had abdicated...
Died. Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 74, Governor of Bombay (1913-19), Governor of Madras (1919-24), Governor General of Canada (1926-31), Viceroy and Governor General of India (1931-36); of pneumonia; in London...
Already groups of short, swarthy French mannequins, whose figures and complexions resemble those of swank Latin women, are touring South America under Nazi auspices, showing models flown in German and Italian planes from conquered Paris. The tall, slender, pink-&-white-complexioned Willingdon mannequins will show models just created by the London branches of Worth, Paquin, Molyneux and Lachasse, plus others by Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, Digby Morton, Peter Russell and tweedy Creed...
Chaperon of the 18 mannequins will be not regal Lady Willingdon but vivacious Mrs. Phoebe Tatton Brown, who was born in Argentina, has been released from a British Civil Service job. She explained that the gowns and hats her girls will wear are not for sale. South American women's-wear houses will be licensed to copy them, providing they agree to do so exclusively in British-made materials. One new British dress fabric the Empire mannequins will show is printed all over with ringing World War II phrases struck off by Prime Minister Winston Churchill...