Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian leader after another entered the pink and white viceregal palace in New Delhi. Inside, he was whisked to the second floor by an elevator, and ushered across an acre of anteroom to a small council chamber furnished simply, except for one gold brocade settee. There, hour after hour, the one-eyed, stocky Viceroy, Lord Wavell, aged, infirm Lord Pethick-Lawrence, jolly A. V. Alexander and smiling, schoolmasterish Sir Stafford Cripps heard their visitors out. They were listening avidly for the answer to one question: would India's passionately disunited factions unite to receive and use their freedom...
...Across the magnificent prospects of New Delhi's viceregal gardens, Lord Wavell watched a team of bullocks draw a wooden plow through 70 acres of lawn. Maize, wheat and vegetables would grow there-too little and too late to relieve the famine that had already begun. Noting that few Delhi Britons followed the Viceroy's example, the Hindustan Times bitterly suggested: "Perhaps if the effect is heightened by alternating red tomatoes with green grass, New Delhi may be able to preserve its esthetic soul intact and appease the hunger of the masses. As for tampering with private rosebuds...
...Army is badly in need of ... an Inspector General's Department interested in uncovering facts. It has been our experience that when the I.G. plans a visit, he warns the victim ahead of time to have all the dirt under the carpet. . . . [SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD] New Delhi, India...
India's Britons recalled the horror stories of 1857, when Army mutineers seized seven of India's cities, including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able...
...riots were symptoms of India's deep unrest which Bose had come to symbolize. As the new Central Legislative Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi, not only Bose's brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, but Moslem League Leader Mohamed Ali Jinnah, champion of Pakistan and once a good friend of Britain, denounced British use of Indian troops in Java, demanded their removal...