Word: ali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resplendent in white khadi, with the inevitable red rosebud in his buttonhole, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru flew to Karachi last week. Prime Minister Mohammed Ali was on hand to greet him, while more than 100,000 Pakistanis lined the dusty streets, waving Indian flags as well as their own. From a people that had expected, feared or threatened war with India for six years, this was indeed a surprising welcome...
...three days, the ministers talked in an atmosphere just as cordial. They quickly agreed that trade and travel restrictions along their borders should be eased-in itself an important step. But when they came to the complex question of Kashmir, there was no agreement. Mohammed Ali repeated Pakistan's claim that the 4,000,000 Kashmiris, 75% of whom are Moslems, should be allowed to decide by plebiscite which nation they would join; Nehru, as usual, agreed but would not say when the plebiscite might be taken. And at week's end, they put out a communique that...
...Real friends, indeed," said Prime Minister Mohammed Ali, who during his 14 months as Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. learned to like American food, slang and automobiles, and learned the value of the old American custom of saying thank you. While U.S. visitors, accustomed to Asian suspicion or dislike of the U.S., were still getting over their surprise, 98 camels were shuffled up with their carts, to take the wheat to the railroad station to be sent upcountry. Around the camels' scrawny necks hung placards in Urdu, reading: "Thank you, U.S.A...
...Albania he visited the Turkish vizier, Ali Pasha, who "treated me like a child, sending me almonds and sugared sherbet, fruit and sweetmeats twenty times a day." Off the isle of Corfu he found he could take the lash of fortune as well as her caress. When the ship seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor...
Middle East. Churchill wants the Commonwealth to commit itself to the wartime defense of Suez, but members could not agree. Nehru and Mohammed Ali, both of whom plan to visit Egyptian Dictator Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...