Word: aly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickie" Mountbatten was for a quick showdown. India's leaders would meet in Delhi June 2. Mountbatten would give them one more chance to accept or reject, once & for all, Britain's 1946 plan for India-a loose federation of states. If they rejected it (and Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem leader, almost certainly would), then Mountbatten would suggest an alternative. Under it, each province could decide for itself whether 1) to join Hindustan, 2) to join Pakistan, 3) to set itself up as an independent nation...
India's loquacious, figure-fumbling Asaf Ali had the greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
Chairman Pearson: It hasn't prevented members at that end from speaking frequently. [The section includes India's Asaf Ali and Iraq's Fadhil Jamali...
Even the Moslem League's cold, uncompromising Mohamed Ali Jinnah was getting cold feet. He said: "The question of the partitioning of Bengal and Punjab is raised ... to unnerve the Moslems by . . . emphasizing that the Moslems will get truncated or mutilated in a moth-eaten Pakistan. . . . It's a mistake to compare the basic principle of demand for Pakistan [with] cutting up provinces throughout India into fragmentation...
Flatus Vocis. The most talkative non-Arab delegate was India's florid Asaf Ali. "When we talk about Jews," he said, "what Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when...