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...vessels clear five ships from New York every week. In 1949 American Export completed 160 voyages, carried autos, lubricating oils, tires and EGA foodstuffs to the Mediterranean and India, hauling more than half of all U.S. ocean cargo to that area. Its return shipments were more exotic: monkeys from Calcutta, leopard skins from Yemen, Italian vermouth, Turkish tobacco. From its 1,490,548 tons of freight and 13,337 passengers, American Export rolled up a $5,900,000 profit. American Export, already closest rival of U.S. Lines for U.S. transatlantic passenger supremacy, hopes to clinch the title next year when...
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...
...fast Punjab Mail train pulled out of Calcutta one evening last week, most of the passengers aboard were Punjabis returning to their home province for the Hindu marriage season and its round of celebrations. But on this trip the Punjab Mail took them only part way home. Two hundred miles northwest of Calcutta the engine lurched off a bridge. Nearly 100 passengers were killed, 150 injured...
Meanwhile, terrified Moslems had themselves become refugees, huddled together in camps while they waited for a chance to make their way to East Pakistan. One camp, on the Park Circus recreation area in central Calcutta, held more than 10,000 Moslems. Every now & then a group of Hindus slipped up to the camp, threw bombs into the refugee area...
Gallup Poll. Calcutta's riots were one more triumph for the extremist Hindu Mahasabha Party, which opposes Nehru, accuses him of appeasing Pakistan. Even politicians who have been Nehru's friends have begun to turn against him on the Pakistan issue. Oldtime Congress Leader Tushar Kanti Ghosh used his daily paper, Amrita Bazar, to flail Nehru and urge war. He asked readers.for their opinions, got 200,000 replies, 87% of which favored armed attack or "police action" against...