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...Congress members were already clamoring to oust them. Many of the old Congress high command resigned because they wanted to avoid the ignominy of dismissal. The Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose. And among the things Mr. Bose...
Many Britons have of late forgiven Saint Gandhi his past sins as leader of the anti-British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
Actor Abdul-Wahab's trilly tenor voice has long been heard on Italian Arabic propaganda broadcasts. The programs were recorded. But so popular was Abdul-Wahab's crooning even in that form that Arabs were more than willing to listen to a few words of anti-British oratory while waiting for the next torch song-often fairly anatomical...
...Moslem, and it is regarded as the cradle of fanatical Shiahism. A wide majority of the illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...
Says the introspective hero of this slyly anti-British novel: "Isn't pioneering always a running away from something? . . . It's more difficult to make your way among millions of your equals and betters than to shoot a few savages and animals and suffer some little inconveniences. The wild animals are less predatory too than the nicest people. Safer, for a person like...