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...political side of the problem Gandhi stated to the Marquess of Linlithgow in a recent exchange of letters: "If I don't survive the ordeal I shall go to the judgment seat with the fullest faith in my innocence. Posterity will judge between you as the representative of an all-powerful Government and me as the humble man who tried to serve his country and humanity through...
Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...
Bleak Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, was scheduled to retire in April 1943, and, though it was well into December, his successor had not been named. His term had already been extended through two abrasive years and he was tired...
...salary annually, with all expenses paid, a fabulous palace to live in rent-free, and virtually unlimited power over 400,000,000 subjects. But today the viceroyalty is Empire's hottest seat. So, with time growing embarrassingly short, Winston Churchill last week had to announce that Lord Linlithgow would continue as India's Viceroy until October...
Essentially both Churchill's speech and Lord Linlithgow's refusal come as a manifestation of the same political frame of mind. The war leader emphatically pronounced that he would not be a party to any move altering the re-war colonial status quo, and the Viceroy's action was aimed at seeing that this policy could be effected without the menace of a united India. The whole chain of events clarifies a hitherto misty picture...