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...often and so fortunately occurred in English history, a Scotsman, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, was making good last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin...
...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...these circumstances to appoint Lord Linlithgow the next Viceroy of India, so that he might expertly install and adjust the new Constitution to its 350,000,000 souls, seemed quite the most obvious and also quite the wisest decision taken last year by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in what was otherwise his Year of Bumbles. But would the Indian people take either to the Constitution or to Linlithgow? When he arrived in Bombay there was not a single native newspaper which did not oppose the Constitution, and the earliest date by which Britons dared hope to put it into effect...
...Children, I Speak to You!" At 5:30 p.m. the day after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet...
Many of the phrases a Viceroy must use are formalized and stereotyped, but others of rare charm were added by Linlithgow. This was his way of telling the diverse and quarrelsome Indian people something they had heard from many a previous Viceroy and seldom or never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal...