There were three links at any rate between Lord Chelmsford
and the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar—India, cricket and the League of Nations. Curiously enough the same applies to Lord Willingdon too. Each of the three men was a University and county cricketer (not half a dozen cricketers. of course, can be mentioned in the same breath as Ranjitsinhji, and neither the present nor the former Viceroy was of the half-dozen) and each has represented India at the League of Nations Assembly. On each, it may be added, Geneva made a marked impres- sion. The Jam Sahib, with Mr. C. B. Fry as his adviser, threw himself with zest into the work of the first Assembly in 1920 and was more than any man instrumental in persuading hesitant delegates to add intellectual co-opera- tion to the League's list of activities.. It has never been very clear why the Labour Government thought of Lord Chelmsford for First Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, but the ex-Viceroy had already manifested his sense of public duty so notably in many fields as to make it pretty certain that he would accept any post where he could be persuaded that there was public service to be done. • * * *
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