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...Provost's Lodge at Eton College, most famed of Britain's swank public schools and academic nursery of England's royalty and peerage, sat last week the newly appointed Provost of Eton, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil, fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, alumnus of Eton and Oxford, Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 26 years. Ever since Henry VI, who founded Eton in 1440, appointed one of his chief advisers to preside over the College's governing body as Provost, this office has been the most coveted and glorious...
...this "fireside talk" quality of the Marquess of Linlithgow's speech-afterward broadcast in native tongues-which popularly caught on, but the speech also contained extraordinarily meaty and precise encouragement and instructions for thousands of Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among...
...flames of "Civil Disobedience" and attempted insurrection (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). With everything dependent on the Viceroy's personal success in winning Indians to ignore the malcontents who were urging them to boycott the first election under the new Constitution and make it unworkable, the Marquess of Linlithgow was not uttering a platitude but making a particularly crucial appeal when he keynoted with Scottish straightforwardness: "Trust me-I will trust you." King of Kings. In the Orient many a peewee potentate styles himself...
...frightening Indian public opinion with the notion that the rise of Hitler and generally of Dictatorship in Europe is a growing trend which makes the Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design...
...Constitution is What? In discussing what will happen in India after the elections, so great an authority as Viscount Halifax has written of the Indian provinces, "We cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only...