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Another kind of show-the kind anyone can understand-was provided by Viceroy & Lady Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states...
Regally Lord Willingdon gave his assent, then administered to Sir Ralph: 1) his oath of allegiance to the King-Emperor and 2) his oath of office. That was all for the day, except more ear-splitting salutes followed by "God Save the King...
...trust" in the tribal chieftains by permitting them to guard and ensure his safety on a short drive into the Khyber Pass "as far as the high ground" (from which Afghanistan may be sighted) and back to Peshawar. A very old chief under a voluminous shamianah (canopy) assured Lord Willingdon that "all the trouble hereabouts is due to the young men who are only one in 20 of us. All the rest are loyal and we pray the Government to show pity on us poor people. We pray that the Government will show its pleasure by permitting us to enlist...
...third day in Peshawar Viscount Willingdon opened the new North-West Frontier Legislative Council, an ostensibly parliamentary body with little real power. From his golden throne he read a speech on behalf of George V, King & Emperor. Said His Majesty, through His Excellency's lips, "On peace and good government in the North-West Frontier Province depends in great measure the security of India. I look with confidence to the people of the province so to order their affairs that the momentous change which my Viceroy is today inaugurating will conduce to the benefit of their province and India...
...breaks the Gandhite movement, restores India to submission and thus saves the most valuable adjunct of Empire stern Lord Willingdon may even be rewarded with a dukedom.* perhaps "Duke of Gandhiland...