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...Expedition of 1924 returned to humanity and civilization. Gen. Bruce, head of the expedition, who was forced to retire because of an attack of malaria (TIME, June 16) rode out of Darjelling and met the returning party several miles in the country. When the party reached the town, Lady Lytton and her guests gave it a handsome welcome. Gen. Bruce and Lieut. Col. Norton settled down to wind up the affairs of the expedition before returning to Calcutta...
...writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...
Viscount Knebworth, Oxford, son of the Earl of Lytton, knocked out his London University opponent in a welterweight competition. This was taken to prove that the young peerage is not entirely useless...
...Swaraj leader, who was asked by Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal to form a ministry (TIME, Dec. 24), declined that invitation. His reasons were that the people of India cannot offer willing cooperation until the present system of government is changed. He thought it 'dishonorable to accept office and then carry on the Swaraj policy of noncooperation...
...book India in World Politics,† apart from comment on the British Raj which is neither equitable, honest nor impartial, sums up compendiously the aspiration of the Swaraj. It is not to be wondered at that the London Daily Telegraph, alluding to the action of Lord Lytton, said that "the event will doubtless be noted by the future historian as a landmark in the annals of the Indian peoples...