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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While we are eating our roast turkey and cranberries in America, Bill Fisher and Bill Vandivert in New Delhi have been invited to eat their Indian equivalent with General Ferris-while Teddy White in Chungking will probably get together with the few other American old timers at the Embassy. Harry Zinder may get back from the desert in time to have his Christmas dinner with Jack Belden at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo where Rommel planned to have his headquarters by now- and I will be surprised if Will Lang and Lincoln Barnett don't have a really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...rupees-Incidental expenses: plane from Colombo to Bombay, train from Bombay to Delhi. When I hit Delhi I had just 7 rupees left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

That terrible August day when dozens of people were being shot down all through Delhi and rain and blood ran half and half in the dirty gutters I came back to the Cecil at 9 o'clock emotionally exhausted. And there on the porch they all were sipping their gimlets and chota pegs-and they asked me what was happening in town and was it serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...with the first Allied success it becomes obvious that Tory imperialism is far from slumbering. In the week following the landings in North Africa, events from London and New Delhi sounded the re-birth of the old order of Empire and short-sighted colonial policies. From a Prime Minister who had signed a Charter granting freedom to all post-war minorities, came the statement "I have not been made the King's First Minister to be present at the liquidation of the British Empire." From the Indian capital, only 500 miles from the Japanese front lines, came the news...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wartime Tory | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

...Then? New Delhi correspondents were allowed to cable that U.S. ground forces had completed a network of airdromes and supply points in India and Assam. London broke the news that the battleships Warspite, Royal Sovereign and Resolution and the aircraft carrier Illustrious were in the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Back to Burma | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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