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...Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun, Viscount Aithrie and Baron Hope sprained his ankle last week. The accident obliged him to cancel all engagements "involving standing or walking." But he was still able to talk, and for many weeks he had promised a most important announcement in his official capacity-Viceroy of India. Last week the lame Lord Linlithgow made his statement. It turned out to be lame...
...began, Britain declared India in, without asking India's wishes, and made vague promises of dominion status after the war. Indian nationalists, though naturally dissatisfied, showed-and still were showing last week-great restraint in not pressing Britain in the emergency. It was expected that Lord Linlithgow's statement would repay India for this restraint...
...certain "representative Indians" in the Viceroy's Executive Council; 2) formation of a War Advisory Council including delegates chosen from the native princes; 3) reiteration of the promise of a new constitution after the war. Since the "representative Indians" would be viceregal stooges hand-picked by Lord Linlithgow, and since the War Advisory Council would have no power over the Imperial General Staff, India gained virtually nothing. With Italians driving into Somaliland, and the enemy threatening Aden and therefore Britain's Near Eastern oil lines, India's aid was last week more vital than ever...
...Lord Linlithgow responded to the new situation with a crackdown. He ordered the arrest of Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Congress Party's violent left wing and fiercest challenger of the war effort for Britain. Long a thorn not only in Britain's but also in Gandhi's side (since his precipitousness upset many patient Gandhi plans), Subhas Bose is used to suppression. He has been interned no less than eleven times. Chubby, sickly, stubborn as an untrained elephant, and India's radical leader, Bose was elected president of the Congress Party in 1939, only...
...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 of Indian munitions and other war-goods production...