Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1914 — Lord Minto’s “Drop It.” [ARTICLE]

Lord Minto’s “Drop It.”

The late Lord Minto’s policy of making the ) relations with protected states easier and less rigid was Oonceived from the moment of his arrival in India. The very first '“file” placed before him related, it is said, in the case of a maharajah, now dead, who had been putting a Tudor crown on his servants’ liveries, his carriages, his china, and most of his belongings. Indian maharajahs are not suprosed to use the emblems of British royalty, and the correspondence on the subject had grown mountainous. Lord Minto dealt with the matter in the shortest viceregal “note" on record. He wrote on the top sheet: “Drop it.”