Word: marquessate
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...Transport's Beginning. Three years ago in the embassy at Washington the late Marquess of Lothian, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, was asked by a reporter how bombers bought under the cash-&-carry plan could be transported to sorely pressed England. Lord Lothian whispered: "I have been told they might be flown over...
Chief Justice Gwyer's decision made the behavior of the British Raj in the past nine months look not quite Marquess of Queensberry. But it brought no change in the status of the arrested Congress leaders...
Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
Dispatches from India last week scarcely mentioned the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, personal friend and unrelenting political enemy of Mohandas K. Gandhi. But it was Lord Linlithgow, tall, stern symbol of British policy, unbending in his scarlet-carpeted marble palace, who had stood his ground and defeated Mohandas Gandhi, frail symbol of India's ceaseless struggle for her independence...
...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...