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...Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, wants to talk over troublesome Indian problems with Mohandas K. Gandhi, the revered Mahatma will usually arrange to call on His Excellency at New Delhi. Not so obliging is another Indian leader named Mirza Ali Khan, better known as the Fakir...
...aconite in their buttered tea). Tibet's Regent, shy, ugly, runty, jug-eared Thup Ten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, lives in one of Lhasa's best palaces, raises European flowers in his garden. To him, Agent Gould gave many presents from India's Viceroy Lord Linlithgow-a silver tea service, rifles, revolvers, a gramophone, a thermos flask, a signed photograph. Likewise, Agent Gould and his staff were on hand when the small 14th incarnation (or "Embodiment") made his ceremonial "return" to Lhasa. The boy surveyed the Britishers calmly, according to reports seemed to be trying to recall whether...
...half hours Mohandas K. Gandhi and Lord Linlithgow conferred. Well did His Excellency know that the millions of Gandhi followers were fairly itching to have their beloved Mahatma declare that the time had come for them to go on strike against British rule. Well did he know that in this war India has not contributed anything like the money or the soldiers she did in the last. He knew very well also what another Gandhi-directed civil disobedience campaign would meana transportation tie-up of badly-needed supplies, calling out large Indian Army units, a constant worry that Soviet Russia...
...next move, he thought, was up to Lord Linlithgow. The next move, others thought...
Married. Lady Anne Hope, 25, daughter of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; and Lieutenant P. H. J. Southby, R. N., 26, aide to the Marquess, son of Sir Archibald Southby, M. P.; in New Delhi, India. After the ceremony, the Marquess, in viceregal tradition, treated 5,000 Delhi poor to a meal...