Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...House of Commons, and the British Government has in fact done nothing to meet Indian aspirations. There have been commissions of investigation, soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912?is a poor weapon...