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...often and so fortunately occurred in English history, a Scotsman, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, was making good last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin...
...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
...Bumbles. But would the Indian people take either to the Constitution or to Linlithgow? When he arrived in Bombay there was not a single native newspaper which did not oppose the Constitution, and the earliest date by which Britons dared hope to put it into effect was 1940. The Marquess of Linlithgow had only just resigned as a Director of the Bank of Scotland, and was frankly both Capitalist and Conservative...
...Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet. All this might have fallen flat, but the new Viceroy, after taking the oath in Durbar Hall-where new Emperor Edward VIII has the pleasure in store of sitting on India's golden Throne (see cut, p. 22)- the Marquess of Linlithgow made a radio broadcast which can be compared in its surprising effect only to the "fireside talks" with which friendly "Frank"' Roosevelt kindled nationwide acclaim in his first few weeks as President...
...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...