Word: ali
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last Britain's colonial policy had lumbered to the point where Whitehall really wanted to free India, hope revived. When they reflected (as they often did) that civil war had never been closer, despair reached .its depth. The issue seemed to turn on one man-Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Last week all India watched Jinnah's words and actions...
...presiding officer was neither shocked nor carried away by the incendiary speeches. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, clad in black angora cap, a long black sherwani (tunic), and tight-fitting black churidar on his wire-thin legs, smiled his ice-cold smile. He was at the peak of his power. He was the man who might say whether one-fifth of the world's people would be free. His 5 ft. 11 in. and 119 Ibs. stood between India and independence...
Attlee's declaration could not demolish the biggest obstacle to Indian independence-the division between Hindus and Moslems. His statement that "we cannot allow minorities to veto advances by the majority" hit a sensitive spot. Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who demands a separate Moslem state (Pakistan), accused Attlee of "rope-walking," repeated his doctrine that "the Moslems of India are not a minority but a nation, and self-determination is their birthright." Again he threatened civil war if the British and Congress reject Pakistan. If it is a question, he said, of "who can shed the more...
...riots were symptoms of India's deep unrest which Bose had come to symbolize. As the new Central Legislative Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi, not only Bose's brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, but Moslem League Leader Mohamed Ali Jinnah, champion of Pakistan and once a good friend of Britain, denounced British use of Indian troops in Java, demanded their removal...
Many of these tales have been told before in other lands, in other tongues. Ali Baba, Aladdin, Big Klaus and Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father...