Word: linlithgow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dignified, Roosevelt-jawed Victor Alexander John Hope, 54, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, strolled among the splashing fountains of his colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting...
Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...
Fifteen months ago India's Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, made a desperate bid for Indian cooperation in the Empire war effort by setting up a kind of Cabinet, an Executive Council, eight of whose 13 members were "distinguished and representative Indians." Neither the Congress nor the Moslem League were consulted in the move, and both have since freely charged that all key jobs in the Council went to Britons, that the Indians picked were tried-&-true yes-men for the British...
...ornate mosques of Delhi, Lahore, Peshawar and Hyderabad this month were gathering hundreds of determined young Moslems in brown uniforms, armed with spades. They were Khaksars, "the Humble as the Dust," meeting for "a certain religious observance." But India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, has had some experience with Khaksar humility and Britain has had plenty with subject peoples who want to make hay while her sun is eclipsed. Last week the Marquess hastily ordered India's provincial Governments to declare the Khaksar movement illegal "wherever necessary...
Obedient Disobedience. The Viceroy of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow, had warned the Mahatma that civil disobedience and speeches against the war would not be tolerated. Crafty Gandhi ordered his people not to make such speeches. Then, week after week, one by one, his followers would ostensibly set out for some remote village to make a speech. Before each one left, Congress headquarters would call British officials and announce that in keeping with the Mahatma's orders they wished to report the forthcoming act of disobedience. As the disobedient one was about to leave he would be arrested...