Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George took special pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
...Japanese, said he, had twin aims: political propaganda in India; the capture of favorable positions for attack on the Assam-Bengal railway - chief supply line for China as well as the India and Burma battlefronts. The Allied countermove is first to locate and pin down the Japs, prevent them from gaining full use of roads, squeeze their supplies. Secondly, the British would attack and destroy the enemy - an operation which would take several weeks...
...World War I and was knighted. As Joint Undersecretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1921, he rode hard on the rebellious Irish. He laid an iron hand on Ernest Bevin's general strike of 1926, and broke it. He governed India's restive province of Bengal for five years, came to be known as the most-shot-at man in the world, and freed one of his would-be assassins so that the man could continue his education in England. He was, and is, an independent the Conservatives would be proud to call their...
...Stilwell's supplies also flowed up the Bengal-Assam railway, along with the gasoline and parts that still give the tightly knit Allied Air Force control of the air and the power to lay down what the Burma fighters needed on the Allied "dropping grounds" in the jungles. If the railway fell, Joe Stilwell's venture would fail. The Jap had made a neat estimate of the situation...
Beyond the prongs of the Jap advance into little Manipur lies the sprawling province of Bengal, Bose's home. Beyond the immediate threat to Allied arms lies the chilling possibility that the Japs mean what they say when they promise 350,000,000 Indians immediate independence. Well may the canny Japanese recall how Kaiser Wilhelm shoved Lenin into a tottering Russian empire, watched him bring the structure down...