Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true. Two of the chief propagandists, operating from Rome, were Iraq's ousted quisling Premier, Rashid Ali El-Gailani, and the sly, self-styled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Jah Amin el Husseini. In Syria, mass dislike of the Free French-British puppet Government was breaking out in the form of bread riots. In Iraq, pro-Axis youth movements were active. In Iran, the Japanese Legation...
...large as had seemed likely. One of the country's leading Moslems, Premier of Punjab Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, told friends that he was resigning from the League's Working Committee and Council. It was believed that he had quarreled with the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Since Sir Sikandar has long favored coalition with the Congress in forming provincial governments, his resignation might mean that he would work for rather than against Moslem-Hindu unity...
...British, I think their imperialism has been the greatest crime against India. The immediate thing, therefore, that the British Government should do is confess the wrong and undo it. Of the undoing there is as yet no sign visible in the Indian sky." The Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah still clung to the League's demands for a separate Moslem state...
...when the Viceroy, following the Constitution, declared India in the war, the Congress forsook provincial self-government, withdrew its ministries, began demanding Indian independence as the price of war cooperation. Meanwhile India's second largest political party, Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League, loudly claimed that it could never submit to united Indian self-government unless it had 50% representation, since otherwise India's Moslems would be a permanent minority under the Congress-dominated Hindu majority. The Moslem League claimed heavy discrimination against Moslems, even atrocities, by Congress bureaucracies under the Act of 1935. The League began...
...routes the Kazak leaders had heard of a fabulous, rich and peaceful land to the south. In a place called India, the rumor ran, they could live quietly, with plenty of grass for their flocks. Turning his back on China, the Kazak's sturdy, 40-year-old chieftain Ali Yas Khan led the remnants of the tribe south...