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...there for the rest of a long and violent life. Jamie Ferguson's daughter Ellen married a great-grandson of the Pennsylvania Dutch van Essens who settled in Midland County and started a sawmill at about the time the Colonel set up at his farm. Their son, Johnny Willingdon, grew up in the years when the Farm was running to seed. When Johnny came back, grown up, after the War, immigrants were living at the Farm and a town was creeping out towards its deteriorated fields...
...refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone, in a room above the kitchen that was pervaded by the aroma of his kerosene lamp, his dry tobacco and the apples he kept piled upon a table...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...
...followers feel that his fasts to impress Indians with the need of abolishing "untouchability" have left his more basic "civil disobedience" struggle against Britain far in the lurch. Since 1931, moreover, India has had a stern, strong-handed Viceroy- Canada's onetime Governor General, the Earl of Willingdon. His police have hounded civil disobedients so hard that last week the Executive Committee was in a mood to give up. When Mr. Gandhi's whizzing motor arrived they had before them a resolution to withdraw the whole civil disobedience struggle and seek a humble compromise with the British...
...Churchill, snorting with impatience, jumped up to shout that "Mr. Baldwin made up his mind on India three years ago! . . . More recently the Viceroy. Lord Willingdon, has told us that the only party that could work this scheme is the Indian Congress party [of Mahatma Gandhi]. And where are the Indian Congress party? They are in jail! Are we to place the loyal police under the control of the very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have...