Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintenance of morale, the Red Cross has discovered it is the little things that count-the piano set up in an old auto showroom in Algiers, the county-fair smell of hamburgers rising amid the Oriental smells of New Delhi, the Wild West movies in the jungles of New Caledonia. Morale, too, means keeping in touch with home. Has the sergeant's baby been born? The Red Cross will find out. Did the Corporal forget his sister's birthday? The Red Cross will send a message...
Fortnight ago General H. H. Arnold and Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Dill held secret conference with Chungking officials, flew to New Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell...
...bright light of a newly risen full moon sprinkled the steps of the temple Lakshmi Narain Mandir at Delhi. The temple bells clanged loud & long. Before the shrine stood a priest in a massive turban and with the holy mark gleaming on his forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...
...prayer for Gandhi in the temple at Delhi was only part of a vast and tragic sense of gloom that engulfed India. In the fields the peasants laid aside their wooden plows. In mud-hut villages and princely palaces the talk was of Gandhi. Only the unbending British Raj would be blamed by millions of Indians if Gandhi died inside the guarded Palace of the Aga Khan at Poona...
Convinced that the Western mind cannot or will not attempt to understand the East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed...