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Protesting. His Highness made a dramatic entrance into his capital city barefoot, holding a large basin of Ganges water over his head. Even this did not affect the stony British Government. As a last resort he telegraphed the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, for permission to postpone his departure till Friday-much more propitious astrologically. This too was refused. His Highness left on Monday...
During the struggle Britain's common-sense Raj yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached...
Migrating monkeys swarmed screeching into the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last week, disturbed the repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...
...Kalat differs from the other states of the Indian Empire," said Lord Willingdon from his Throne, "in that it is a confederacy of nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...
After the durbar the Khan showed the Viceroy his stud farm at Mastung. Thence Lord & Lady Willingdon hastened back east to their capital, New Delhi...