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India's Moslems last week were as angry as Rustum Beg-so angry that they were renouncing the coveted British titles that many of them had served long and fawningly to earn. Sir Mohamed Saadulla, ex-Premier of Assam Province, one of about 435 Indians and Burmans who now hold knighthoods, was angriest. He could 'hardly talk...
...Afghans of the North-West Frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind, "pure" in Tan from Urdu, with "stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...
About the biggest morale booster to us forgotten men of the Assam Valley was the news broadcast concerning the momentous speech of Sergeant Marion Hargrove [TIME, Dec. 17], ex of the U.S. Army. The chairman was right in calling him a nice young fellow. We feel that he speaks for us out here and for 10,000,000 other nice young fellows throughout the world...
Words & Moods. In the far more significant provincial elections (30,000,000 voters), to be held between January and April, the issue will be Pakistan-whether or not to slice off the four predominantly Moslem provinces in India's northwest corner, plus Bengal and Assam in the east, as a separate Moslem land...
...couple of fighter pilots stationed in Assam. . . . Since coming overseas, we have had brought home to us, rather forcibly . . . that women aren't inclined to wait for long when a man has to take time out to fight the war. So we find ourselves the proud possessors of two big shining silver fighter planes but without any girls to name them after...