Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyderabad, India's largest native State, rates a 21-gun salute from British batteries and numbers among his many titles that of "Faithful Ally of the British Government." In World War I the Nizam demonstrated his faithfulness by giving four crores* of rupees ($15,000,000) to Great Britain's war fund, including a $400,000 grant for anti-submarine warfare. He also placed the services of the Hyderabad troops at the King-Emperor's disposal...
...swamped with 300 other princely protestations of loyalty and extravagant promises of support delivered in person or by telegraph to New Delhi. > The 60-year-old Maharaja of Bikaner (19 guns), also a lieutenant general, who has fought for his King-Emperor on three continents (China, Egypt, France), enlarged Britain's war chest by a personal gift of $20,000, and a State gift of $30,000, and offered six battalions of native infantry and camel corps. Still doing his bit, His Highness took his sword and son to the Viceroy personally, regretted that owing...
...Syria, where French authorities, never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq to friendly Saudi Arabia and there strengthen his forces for new Arab uprisings. But whatever...
...first place, the conscription firecracker did not go off. Maurice Duplessis seemed to forget that France was at war as well as Britain. His constituency did not forget that Ottawa, not Quebec, has the final say on conscription, and so the voting would be mere polling of opinion. His Liberal opponents opposed conscription as violently as he did, anyhow. And conscription did not have a strong enough stink to kill the odor of red herring...
...Britain's first soldier dead in action in France was reported: William Roper, 28, of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, killed on volunteer guard duty...