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...ruling in India seven times as many subjects of the King-Emperor as live in the British Isles is likely to be tough during the weeks to come for that tall, scholarly Scottish banker, Viceroy and Governor General the Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun and Baron Hope. Last week the House of Commons officially gave up hope that during a Nazi Blitzkrieg the India Office in London could continue to run India by cable and radio remote control. Only thing to do was to make the Viceroy in effect not only Roi but also Dictator over...
First act of the Viceroy against Nazi propaganda in India was to forbid that radio sets in the popular tea and betel-leaf shops be tuned in on German stations. Indian listening to the Nazis, explained the Viceroy, was "creating unjustified nervousness." Next the British Raj cut off the public payroll the Indian National Congress members who since last November in seven out of the eleven Provinces have boycotted these assemblies but continued to draw their salaries. Then Lord Linlithgow conscripted all British males from 18 to 50 for defense of India. He also conscripted skilled Indian workers, decreed speedups...
...Indian National Congress to non-cooperate with the Raj in all war measures. More serious, the Working Committee, which is now increasingly at outs with Mahatma Gandhi, has exhorted all local Congress committees to try to "arm the people for self-defense"-meaning possible revolt. Somehow or other the Viceroy and the white Britons he conscripted last week must manage to remain top dogs in India. This is going to be harder work than the bird-shooting, garden-partying and ceremony-going the able Scotsman has been doing at the Empire's poshest post for the past four years...
...native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council...
...repudiation of war. . . . The Methodist Church as an institution cannot endorse war nor support or participate in it." Last December four of these U. S. missionaries-Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto to the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. Wrote they: "During the earlier phases of the missionary movement, it was natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory...