Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleaning up the ruins of their country to say much about the plan. Twice contending armies had fought clear across the country, leaving blackened towns, blown-up bridges, ripped-up railroads, scuttled river craft. But their Indian neighbors, nursing their own frustrated dreams of independence, commented bitterly. Said New Delhi's Hindustan Times: "A vague promise of this kind, hedged round with such conditions that they can always serve as an excuse for doing little, is nothing but a cruel piece of casuistry." In London a Burmese moderate, Sir Htoon Aung Gyaw, adviser to the governor of Burma, warned...
Soon the Viceroy will return to New Delhi. There he will reportedly take three steps: 1) release all Indian political leaders from internment and otherwise restore civil liberties; 2) call a joint session of the Legislative Assembly and Council of State (upper house of the Indian Legislature) and announce London's new proposals for breaking the long-standing deadlock between Indian nationalists and the British Raj; 3) meet with Indian political leaders of all parties to discuss the proposals...
...hope had sprung up around two secondary political figures-the Congress party's Bhulabhai Desai, 67, and the Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
After four months in the Burma jungle, plagued with Delhi sores, and drinking water from mud holes polluted with long-time dead Japs, holding a small disk of glass in one's eye with complete aplomb calls for steel nerves...
...when they had known only heavy ones, or toward the national debt (at $230 billion), when they could hardly remember that economists had quaked when it first reached $50 billion? What would be the attitude toward foreign trade and investment of a man who had come to regard the Delhi-Cairo, Dakar, Brazil-Miami run as a glorified ride to the suburbs...