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...Samuel, Viscount Willingdon the present Viceroy of India, and onetime Viceroy Lord Irwin (now Viscount Halifax) are supposed to feel that they will go down in history as "India's Abraham Lincolns," super-emancipators who have laid a basis for setting 350,000,000 Indians free under the new Constitution some generations hence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 12, 1935 | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...bill, which lay last week some 5,000 miles away on Parliament's great oak table, but they could endorse or denounce officially an epochal measure already roundly cursed by Mahatma Gandhi's unofficial Indian National Congress. The New Delhi Legislators are supposed to be Viceroy Lord Willingdon's trained seals, if an Englishman can tram Indians. Last week they decided to vote on the major premise of the proposed new status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: 1933 & 1776 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting 74 to 58 that the basic principle of All-India Federation is "fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable to the people of British India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: 1933 & 1776 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Empire is as dead as a dodo." ¶ In Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. ¶ In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Day | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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