Word: linlithgow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bleak Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, was scheduled to retire in April 1943, and, though it was well into December, his successor had not been named. His term had already been extended through two abrasive years and he was tired...
Essentially both Churchill's speech and Lord Linlithgow's refusal come as a manifestation of the same political frame of mind. The war leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...
...interviewed Moslem League President Mohammed AH Jinnah, felt that the results of their conversation should be reported to the Congress party's imprisoned Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Last week C. R., in white robes and sandals, his sunglasses on his aquiline nose, called on the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, and asked permission to see Gandhi. The tall, cool Viceroy refused...
These sound humanitarian grounds are not likely to satisfy India's Moslems. In 1939 the Marquess of Linlithgow, India's Viceroy, announced that because every ship was needed for World War II, hajis would have to wait for peace to make their pilgrimage (usual season: November through January). Moslems were indignant. Berlin made fast & furious propaganda throughout the East, and the Viceroy had to yield. Though the war has kited shipping costs, India subsidized shipowners to continue the pilgrimage at prewar fares through last season. This time, the Viceroy is already coping with so much Indian unrest that...
...Russia, should be inclined to forget India, or merely hope for the best. But the New Statesman's voice of conscience demanded a break in the deadlock "at any cost to our Imperial pride." Steps proposed: 1) request the mediation of President Roosevelt; 2) replace Indian Viceroy Lord Linlithgow; 3) guarantee post-war Indian independence "in the name of the United Nations"; 4) issue a Government White Paper on "the real extent of the damage and trouble in India"; 5) consider the Indian situation "as the most urgent problem" when the House of Commons reconvenes...