Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...princess and her sister Fatmeh were in the U.S. merely to study the Red Cross and other welfare bodies, but Washington had political motives for being nice. Soviet Russia, quiescent since last winter, was rumbling again on Persia's northern border. Persia might need help...
...seemed clear that if the oil deal were junked by parliamentary vote (as appeared very likely), Russia would have to back down or use force. Force was always a possibility. Red troops and their Kurdish adherents were reported massing across the border, and a U.S. observer said that north Persian cities were having "invasion jitters." Gavam did not seem unduly worried. He knew that he had friends, and that his friends expected him to stick to his guns...
...spring when hundreds were killed in riots there (TIME, March 17). In mid-August the partition of the Punjab between India and Pakistan left 1.6 of the 3.8 million Sikhs in the province under Moslem rule; at least twice as many Moslems remained on the Indian side of the border in a new East Punjab state...
There was no fraternization in the Punjab. At Amritsar, on the Indian side of the border, organized gangs of Sikhs had exterminated or driven out the Moslem minority population (150,000). Moslems in Lahore and other Pakistan border regions retaliated against the Hindus and Sikhs there...
Some of his subordinates went further. The Moslem deputy commissioner of one of the Western Punjab districts mourned a son killed on the Indian side of the border. Said he to the young Moslems: "You have full liberty to go the limit...