Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instance, Sherrod tried for three days to buy a plane ticket for a quick trip from New Delhi, India, to Shanghai (via Calcutta and Manila). When he finally located the Air Transport Command officer and gave him money for the passage, the ATCman promptly lost it. So Sherrod bought another ticket and got to the airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult...
...Delhi 4.5 inches of rain, the heaviest single fall in 20 years, ushered in the monsoon season, ushered out the three British Cabinet ministers who had hoped to bring independence to India. Exactly 14 weeks after they had arrived, the Cabinet mission took off into overcast skies, leaving an India precariously set on the road to self-government but still far from the goal to which they had hoped to lead...
...been vaguely optimistic. Speaking of the British long-range plan, he said recently: "There are two ways of looking at the statement. I believe in looking at the bright side. . . . It might be, however, that there is no bright side, but you will lose nothing by trusting." New Delhi's papers looked at the British mission in three ways, said goodbye with these headlines: Hindustan Times (Congress Party), "MISSION'S SUCCESS"; the Statesman (Tory British), "CONTRASTS"; Dawn (Jinnah's mouthpiece), "FAILURE OF A MISSION...
...years Mohamed Ali Jinnah had kindled the fires of civil war with his slogan "Pakistan or die!" Last week, as tan dust swirled through New Delhi on the year's hottest day (112°), it was up to Jinnah to cool off his Moslem League...
Meanwhile, as dusty winds howled in from the plains to cool off sweltering Delhi, the Congress Party Working Committee repaired each day to Mohandas Gandhi's spruced-up quarters in the Untouchable sweepers' district. The Congress had not yet publicly endorsed the British proposals, but its activity indicated that it was ready to take part in the interim government provided for in the plan...