Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
...Central News Agency, which has seven correspondents in Washington, London, New Delhi and Geneva, would like to send men to other capitals and fronts of the war, but cable rates on press dispatches to China are exorbitant. The number of Chinese who have some competence in English is going to decline sharply in the next generation, and the Russian influence has certainly grown stronger. Yet it is to American and British universities that the best Chinese reporters would like...
...RAVENHOLT New Delhi, India...
Then it seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease...
...Suffering. Blinding clouds of yellow dust off the deserts swirled into India. Pukka memsahibs began their annual trek to the cool mountains. Trains were jammed with passengers, parrots, dogs. In New Delhi the exodus threatened American officers with a shortage of women companions. Flowers wilted. Vultures lazed. Kites dived down and stole cakes from terrace tea tables...