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Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...
...place along the way we passed a band of Scottish Highlanders marching toward internment, blowing lustily all the while on bagpipes. A monocled officer led them, sporting a cane in place of his saber. Not one face carried a shadow of sadness...
...silver night, the men and their machines were on their way across. Not a single enemy plane was overhead to make things messy. The men were of many nations-Australians, Scottish Highlanders, English regulars, bearded Sikhs, wiry Gurkhas, Malayan militiamen-but they were of one mind. They had their single mind on the question of how to hold this crafty enemy...
...Strong nationalists themselves, the Pol ish soldiers have been quick to appreciate that Scotland is Scotland, not a part of England, and they share in Scottish pride. One Polish lieutenant answered "English slanders" about highland weather: "Actually our Scotland has a better climate than London...
...Heretofore Scottish wooing has tended to be matter-of-fact, not to say brusque. The Poles, past masters of the soulful gaze and the kissing of hands, have given lassies an entirely new perspective on courtship. Even Scottish lads, spurred on by this high-voltage romantic competition, admit: "We've learned more about lovemaking from the Poles than anything else...