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...dignified, Roosevelt-jawed Victor Alexander John Hope, 54, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, strolled among the splashing fountains of his colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting...
While the British Government investigrated, the London Evening Standard broached the whole unsavory subject of plane priorities, said: "One hears of Sir Samuel Hoare's butler, Lady Reading's secretary-chauffeuse, the eleven-year-old son of the Marquess of Queensberry . . . all taking up space [in the Lisbon Clipper] . . . causing important British and American citizens to be delayed at Lisbon...
Besides his zoological hobbies, the Duke has dabbled in Communism, Buchmanism, Social Credit and Fascism. Currently he is a Pacifist and Social Creditor. Early in 1940, when he was still the Marquess of Tavistock, he turned up at the Foreign Office with a peace proposal which he claimed came from the German Legation in Dublin...
Died. Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, 74, Governor of Bombay (1913-19), Governor of Madras (1919-24), Governor General of Canada (1926-31), Viceroy and Governor General of India (1931-36); of pneumonia; in London...
...glass eyes of the slightly moth-eaten stuffed bear on the staircase of London's St. James's Club should have bugged out last week. The ghost of suavely arrogant, egg-domed ex-Member George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and British Foreign Secretary of the 1920s, must have shivered in its shroud. Founded in 1757, St. James's is famed for its claret, its caricatures by Sir Joshua Reynolds and the exclusiveness of its membership, mostly confined to diplomats from the topmost social drawer. A Tsarist prince once lost ?10,000 in its card rooms. Last...