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...more ceremonious than the inauguration of a President of the U. S. was the arrival in Bombay last week of the new Viceroy of India, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow. Ahead of him had arrived his New Deal, the renovated and liberalized Indian Constitution based on Lord Linlithgow's own exhaustive 350-page investigation and recommendations (TIME, Aug. 12). What made 350,000,000 Indians so anxious last week for a sight of the half-dreamy, half-cranky face of their new Viceroy was that...
...being set aside so that at 21 he will have £200. Frowned on as an expensive form of emigration by the British Treasury, the School is a favorite charity of the Prince of Wales; Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Colonies; the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; Lady Tweedsmuir, the wife of the new Governor-General of Canada; Edward Stephen Harkness (Harvard House plan, Yale College plan); many another fashionable sponsor...
White Magic. Happily, the Marquess of Linlithgow is the Empire's great specialist on precisely this issue which is India's economic crux. He delved into all its aspects for two years (1926-28) as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Both Houses of Parliament then appointed him Chairman of their Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933-35), which to all intents and purposes wrote India's new Constitution...
...Approved 239-to-62 the Linlithgow India Report already approved by the Commons (TIME, Dec. 24), thus providing His Majesty's Government with a full mandate to draft its own act giving India more liberal status. In highly premature alarm, the Marquess of Salisbury, a Tory diehard, accused the Government of intending to grant India full Dominion Status, "the ideal of Gandhi...
Voted 410-to-127 to authorize His Majesty's Government to present legislation based on the Linlithgow Report (TIME, Dec. 3) to give India a more nearly self-governing status...