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...which means that he has three commands. As CINCPAC, he commands the Pacific Fleet. As CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Area), he is theater commander of an area which reaches from the North to the South Pole, from the continental shores of the Americas to the Bay of Bengal. Radford is also High Commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which means that he must look after the welfare of inhabitants of islands put in U.S. trust by the United Nations. This is the least important of the admiral's three hats, but until midsummer...
Although relations between India and Pakistan have greatly improved, each country is still quick to take offense at criticism by its neighbor's press. Last fortnight India's New Delhi-Calcutta Statesman (circ. 80,000) ran a report about poisoned fish in the rivers of East Bengal, now part of Pakistan. Said the Statesman: "We hear [that] 75% of the [East Bengal] population have .. . ceased to take fish for fear of being poisoned and are meanwhile doing poojah [prayers] to their gods to see if haply this scourge may be removed. We should be more pleased to hear...
Last week the East Bengal government took prompt steps to deny the charges: "Incorrect reports ... no such complaint . . ." In their anger, the Pakistani officials had failed to notice that the Statesman's fish story appeared in the column, "Seventy-Five Years Ago Today...
...stiff opposition of Hindu extremists in Nehru's cabinet puts him in political danger if he cannot keep Kashmir for India. His agreement with Liaquat Ali last week cost him the resignations of two Moslem-hating cabinet members from riot-torn Bengal. The Kashmir mediation will be a stiffer test of whether Nehru and Liaquat Ali can make their agreement work...
Nevertheless, the strength of the Mahasabha war party was growing, and it would take all the skill that Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan could muster to bring peace out of the terror that stalked Bengal...