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...wages being set aside so that at 21 he will have £200. Frowned on as an expensive form of emigration by the British Treasury, the School is a favorite charity of the Prince of Wales; Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Colonies; the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; Lady Tweedsmuir, the wife of the new Governor-General of Canada; Edward Stephen Harkness (Harvard House plan, Yale College plan); many another fashionable sponsor...
White Magic. Happily, the Marquess of Linlithgow is the Empire's great specialist on precisely this issue which is India's economic crux. He delved into all its aspects for two years (1926-28) as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Both Houses of Parliament then appointed him Chairman of their Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933-35), which to all intents and purposes wrote India's new Constitution...
...Lords: ¶ Were treated to a vigorous denunciation of Democracy-particularly the U. S. brand-and a spirited defense of Fascism by that strong-minded patriarch, the Bishop of Exeter, Rt. Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, whose father, the late great Marquess of Salisbury, was thrice Prime Minister...
...impart to Empire foreign policy Whitehall preferred not to guess. At the India Office he was noted for bullheadedness, for closing his eyes to new facts once his decisions were made, and for slogging through. Last week Sir Sam slogged his India Bill helper, the slim, grey-mustached Marquess of Zetland, into the Secretaryship of State for India he himself had just vacated. Lord Zetland wears 1910 collars, teems with anecdotes commencing "Now when I was Governor of Bengal . . .", and has a mannerism which Englishmen describe as "perpetually washing his hands with invisible soap...
...publicized heart. British dopesters were busy last week figuring that, if MacDonald resigned, he would take with him the weak men in the National Cabinet. This meant two in particular: Sir John Simon whose Olympian coldness in human contacts had not served Britain well in foreign affairs; and the Marquess of Londonderry, Air Minister, who should have known that Germany was building an air fleet...