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...symbol of unity at New Delhi was remote, the communal hatred that had forced the partition now faced was real enough. On both sides of the new dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost...
...played down. There is considerable criticism of the arts. The rest of the printed news consists almost entirely of stories that are 1) admonitory (general and often specific criticism of conditions in the Soviet Union), 2) exhortatory (to spur desirable activities like 'the proper service of customers in communal dining rooms'), 3) panegyrical (eulogizing Stalin...
...Bloodiest communal warfare in many years of Indian history...
...accepted, the British hoped there would be one strong mold to bind the pieces-the Indian Army (present strength: 400,000, with 9,000 Indian officers, 4,000 British officers). The Hindus (56%), Moslems (34%), Sikhs and Christians in its ranks have worked together with minimum friction. In recent communal riots local police proved ineffective, while the Army's Hindu and Moslem troops obeyed orders, often succeeded in checking disturbances. But a purely Moslem army could not be expected to protect Hindu minorities in Pakistan, nor a Hindu army to protect Moslems in Hindustan. That did not bother Jinnah...
...Jinnah wanted to eat the cake of Moslem separatism, and have the cake of Hindu manpower. Pakistan, said his mouthpiece Dawn, should have all troops now stationed in the northern and eastern commands (most of the troops, including Hindus and Sikhs, are in those areas). Even a division along communal lines, which Jinnah might consistently have asked for, would wreck the Army at a crucial time when Britons are pulling out, leaving many half-trained reserves in lower echelons, a drastic shortage of officers...