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...ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary was indicated not only by the killing but by Gandhi's recent loss of popularity among Hindus. Because he preached communal peace, Hindu extremists last week had begun to call him "the Mudathma," meaning...
...with Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky. Though her appointment was approved by George VI and she is officially His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, Mrs. Pandit has always been popular with the Russians for her consistently anti-British line. As India's U.N. representative, her sharp-tongued performance in denouncing "British imperialism" had earned her the smiles and flattery of Vishinsky...
...Soviets. . . . So he accepted the Wallace speech, partly on misplaced faith in his Cabinet officer's loyalty to the Administration. . . . After the Wallace speech was delivered, Truman had a horrified awakening. He talked with Wallace at great length and discovered, to his increased dismay, that Wallace's anti-British, pro-Russian views were even more extreme than his speech had indicated. He slept on it, and then personally asked for Wallace's resignation...
Arabs staked everything on independence for Palestine right now, while Arabs still outnumber Jews there, 1,000,000 to 600,000. Jews would then become a permanent minority, living on sufferance. The Zionists, to counter this strategy, had to bring into the open a fact long hidden by their anti-British propaganda. They do not want the immediate independence of Palestine. Instead, they want increased Jewish immigration into Palestine, under foreign protection against the Arab majority; after they have attained a majority, they will want independence...
...Anti-British Revolution. Like most compromises, the resolution satisfied no one completely (it was passed 99-to-52-the narrowest victory the Congress High Command has won in the working committee). Least of all did it please Jai Prakash Narain, 44, head of the Congress Party Socialists, who favors an anti-British revolution, has called Jinnah a British stooge. Last week he told the students and faculty of the Hindu University of Benares: "In the coming fight, Congress will not have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength...