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...Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, was attempting to prepare the ground for Sir Stafford Cripps, British Government representative now flying to India with a compromise proposal to meet the demands for immediate independence...
...dignified, Roosevelt-jawed Victor Alexander John Hope, 54, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, strolled among the splashing fountains of his colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting...
...Lord Linlithgow's own estates had prepared him to occupy the Viceroy's staggering marble "lodge"-which has six miles of corridors-with casual ease. His innate conservatism was softened by sociability and humor-his London town house once bore the deeply felt legend in brass "This Is Not the Russian Embassy" (which was next door). The Viceroy was at first greatly admired in New Delhi for his hard work, conciliatory attitude, patient fact finding, agricultural knowledge. When the Congress party's provincial ministers balked at taking office under the 1935 Act, because of the extraordinary powers...
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...
Since the war crisis it has been said that Lord Linlithgow's conservatism has played into British industrial hands, which have held down India's industrial development and hence her war effort. A recent Indian cartoon showed the Viceroy hunting, with the legend: "This week the Viceroy shot down 247 enemy partridges." His persistence in official dignities has come in for criticism. He still uses a ten-car viceregal train, steps from it to scarlet carpets. Last month, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek paid his momentous visit to India, the Viceroy sent an aide to welcome him instead...