Word: linlithgow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispatches from India last week scarcely mentioned the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, personal friend and unrelenting political enemy of Mohandas K. Gandhi. But it was Lord Linlithgow, tall, stern symbol of British policy, unbending in his scarlet-carpeted marble palace, who had stood his ground and defeated Mohandas Gandhi, frail symbol of India's ceaseless struggle for her independence...
...political side of the problem Gandhi stated to the Marquess of Linlithgow in a recent exchange of letters: "If I don't survive the ordeal I shall go to the judgment seat with the fullest faith in my innocence. Posterity will judge between you as the representative of an all-powerful Government and me as the humble man who tried to serve his country and humanity through...
Power & Justice. The British case against Gandhi was based on the Western interpretation of pragmatic justice. To the British, Gandhi was guilty of calling for a civil-disobedience campaign last August which set off a mass outburst. Lord Linlithgow held Gandhi legally responsible for the deaths that had occurred, the damage done. In the Viceroy's words, Gandhi's fast was "political blackmail"; as such it was Gandhi's "sole responsibility." This was the official British view. Any weakening of this position, setting Gandhi free-and thus permitting him to break his fast -would be an admission...
Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...
...salary annually, with all expenses paid, a fabulous palace to live in rent-free, and virtually unlimited power over 400,000,000 subjects. But today the viceroyalty is Empire's hottest seat. So, with time growing embarrassingly short, Winston Churchill last week had to announce that Lord Linlithgow would continue as India's Viceroy until October...