COMING VICEROY OF INDIA.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12506, 6 April 1909, Page 4

COMING VICEROY OF INDIA.

• ■-• -At London correspondent informs a contemporary "that Mr Winston Churchill may be appointed Viceroy of India is the interesting piece, of gossip in circulation in political circles. It is a well known' fact that Lord Minto, the present holder of the office is seeking an early retirement, and in some quarters -it is said that his resignation- willbe almost immediate. It' is certain that .the Liberal Government, in the. event of Lord. Minto's retirement j w.ill want to appoint - a . successor before a dissolution, and Mr Cburchill's name is said, to hays received favourable consideration by the Cabinet. . v The need of an energetic, ardent, sympathetic statesman to- handle the critical affairs of India just now is -regarded as an imperative necessity, and a. survey of-the ranks of eligible Liberal^ reveals no one who would fill the bill as well as Mr Churchill."