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...these circumstances to appoint Lord Linlithgow the next Viceroy of India, so that he might expertly install and adjust the new Constitution to its 350,000,000 souls, seemed quite the most obvious and also quite the wisest decision taken last year by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in what was otherwise his Year of 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...
...Children, I Speak to You!" At 5:30 p.m. the day after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet...
Many of the phrases a Viceroy must use are formalized and stereotyped, but others of rare charm were added by Linlithgow. This was his way of telling the diverse and quarrelsome Indian people something they had heard from many a previous Viceroy and seldom or never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal...
This happened to strike the adult Indian children of the British Rajas straight, sincere and moving talk. Into quite another part of his address the new Viceroy tucked the following, for Indian boys and girls who might be listening in: "Children, I speak to you as your King-Emperor's Viceroy and as your friend. Remember that when you grow up it will be with you that the honor of your country will rest. I shall very often think of you. Fear God, honor the King-Emperor, and obey your parents...
...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 the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than...