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...riots were one more triumph for the extremist Hindu Mahasabha Party, which opposes Nehru, accuses him of appeasing Pakistan. Even politicians who have been Nehru's friends have begun to turn against him on the Pakistan issue. Oldtime Congress Leader Tushar Kanti Ghosh used his daily paper, Amrita Bazar, to flail Nehru and urge war. He asked readers.for their opinions, got 200,000 replies, 87% of which favored armed attack or "police action" against...
Rohn, Sergienko, ends; Miller, Shaw, tackles; Bazar, Kaderabek, guards; Balzer, c; Edmonds, qb; Wylie, rh; Burke, lh; Mauran...
...wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more pachydermic opponent: "This puny Governor must be told that India is in no mood to waste time in arguments with petty imperialists...
...gravely shocked a few. Two on a Tower, serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in 1882, was considered so "risque" and "low" that the author was never again allowed to sully the pages of the Atlantic. In 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles ran serially in Harper's Bazar (then a different magazine, both in spelling and in spirit, from what it is now), and this too proved shocking to what J. Henry Harper described as "a number of anxious mothers." But Tess, quite apart from its notoriety, was a success. It established Hardy's transatlantic reputation...
...language papers: the Calcutta Statesman, the Bombay Times of India, etc. There are few Moslem papers (some English-language, some native), like the newly started Delhi Dawn of Obstructionist Mohamed Ali Jinnah. And there are the liberal, Hindu-owned English-language and Hindu-language papers, like the Calcutta Amrita Bazar Patrika and the Bombay Chronicle, that support Mohandas Gandhi. These latter, in the majority, are always whole-hog for Indian independence...