Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchill gave one fact that had not been acknowledged by the Raj in India, or admitted to the outside world through India's tight censorship: Japanese fifth-column work in the northeastern (invasion) provinces of Bengal and Assam has been on a "widely extended scale and with special direction to strategic points." In spite of the obvious reminder of Hong Kong, Singapore and Burma, Churchill summed up the Indian situation as "improving and, on the whole, reassuring...
...that of all United Nations, including Russia and the U.S., are at least fivefold: 1) only through India can fighting China be supplied; 2) only from India can the United Nations launch a campaign to recover Burma; 3) control of India means control of shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean; 4) India's position enables United Nations' air power to strike east or west; 5) Indian supply routes to Iran and Russia will be increasingly important if Russia's southern armies are defeated...
...exalted trusteeship, nor Gandhi's equally sanctimonious conviction of his own purity was powerful enough to prevent it. The immediate danger was that the internal explosion would coincide with the advance of Japanese armies at the northeastern frontier and sea raids across the Bay of Bengal...
...kerosene and burned alive. At Chimur four native police were pounded to death with their own lathees after they refused to join the rioters. Riots were less violent in the industrial cities, but they broke out sporadically from the State of Mysore in the south to the Province of Bengal in the north...
...first days the full impact of Mahatma Gandhi's peculiar program of civil disobedience had not yet had effect. Riots spread around Bombay, like boils, over the face of the Central Provinces. A few were reported in Bengal, where the Japs may invade from India's northeastern border...