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...itself two-and-a-half times the size of England and five times more populous than Scotland. Thus a change of greatest magnitude was performed last week at New Delhi by the Viceroy & Governor General of India, an able Scottish banker, His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquess of Linlithgow. Instead of saying presto-chango, the Viceroy caused his weekly Gazette to swell up for the occasion into a big book...
...miracle of persuasion," to which dignitaries of His Majesty's Government looked this week to bulwark the prestige of Stanley Baldwin on the eve of his slated retirement from the post of Prime Minister next month, must now be worked by Viceroy the Marquess of Linlithgow, and great should be His Excellency's reward for quick success...
...take the large share of lucrative offices in provincial administration due to them under the Constitution - or whether they will adopt "wrecking tactics." The Constitution was written with both alternatives firmly in the mind of Sir Samuel Hoare. Thus, if the 1,585 Deputies cooperate and join Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in making the Constitution work, well and good. If they resort to wrecking tactics, the Constitution empowers first the provincial governors and ultimately the Viceroy completely to overrule the new Legislatures. At the special Wardha strategy committee last week, Mr. Gandhi was said to be for cooperation, President Nehru...
...would have been "gossip" and un-British actually to name the Nawab, but last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water...
...United Kingdom, is the Indian Constitutional Question-the question whether the Indian people accept and enter into the spirit of the new Constitution enacted in 1935 by the Mother of Parliaments and sent to them from London, together with a most able new Viceroy, the banker Marquess of Linlithgow (TIME, Oct. 12 et ante). Last week George VI, new King & Emperor, labored chiefly over reports from his Indian Empire...