Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Offensive? His assurance increased speculation on the possibility of a United Nations offensive. Britain's Commander in Chief for India, General Sir Archibald Wavell, was back in New Delhi from the Burma border. In Assam he had talked to officers who trekked, singly or in pairs, into Occupied Burma and brought out news that the Burmese were hungry, restless and unhappier under the Japs than they ever were under the British...
Lieut. General Joseph W. ("Uncle Joe") Stilwell turned up in New Delhi to talk with General Wavell. Retaking Burma and reopening a real supply line to China would be a vital project for General Stilwell and his U.S. airmen in China...
...method of fighting malaria-commonest disease on earth-is being used to protect the residents of Delhi, India's capital, and the U.S. troops quartered there from the epidemic now raging among the 100,000,000 people of northwest India. Gangs of trained workmen go from house to house all day spraying a mixture of pyrethrum insecticide (5%) and kerosene (95%) on the walls and rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which...
...radio's war of nations one of the neatest recent successes was scored by Britain's All-India Radio in Delhi, in its hammer-&-tongs propaganda war with Siam. Credit goes chiefly to a group of young Siamese scripters, attached to the British Ministry of Information in Delhi. They really know where Siam's political nerves lie, have seldom missed a chance to needle Siam's little puppet dictator Luang Pitul Songgram...
...high spirits Delhi Siamese broadcasters beamed this question to their countrymen: What would happen if you happened to be in the privy when Pitul's morning broadcast began? Several days later Radio Bangkok solemnly took up the challenge. In a nationwide broadcast, Siamese were told that in such an emergency they might simply sit up straight...