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Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
...Peshawar, capital of the newly-created Governor's Province, natives gaped with wonder at the chuffing in of the glistening white Viceregal Train, prostrated themselves as Lord & Lady Willingdon alighted with the icy-smiling mien of ruling sovereigns. The natives stuck their brown fingers into their hairy ears as heavy British field guns shook the earth with a meaningful salute...
...quickly reveal that feeling-even hatred-against the British, is intensifying. The current is steadily running deeper. "British of long residence in India frankly admitted that they fear a big explosion sooner or later. Some even touched guardedly on the 'nightmare of massacre.' "Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon, with the approval of the British Government and British Parliament in London, has set in motion a gigantic police apparatus of drastic suppression of civil rights, free speech and freedom of assembly, such as the world has not seen in many years excepting in Russia and in Italy. . . . "Two years...
Lean Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, rode to the Council House at New Delhi beneath a gold umbrella last week, opened India's Legislative Assembly with these words...
...Lord Willingdon well knew, Indian Nationalists were celebrating the third anniversary of St. Gandhi's declaration of independence. The Mahatma himself, rewarded for his good behavior in jail by permission to receive one visitor each week, squatted in his cell and talked to Disciple Madeline Slade about the two pounds he has gained. But outside Gandhites were far from peaceful...