Foreign News: Linlithgow Report

To look at that youthful and dreamy-faced Scotsman Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow and Baron Hope, few people would suppose that during the War he commanded a Death-spitting armored car corps, that he is now 47 and a director of the Bank of Scotland or that Whitehall would be saying last week "there goes the next Viceroy of India."

Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of...

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