Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belden has long been a tower of strength for our News Bureau in the Far East, but last week Teddy White and Bill Fisher, our other two correspondents in New Delhi, cabled that Belden's pulse was jumping between 110 and 130, that he has to take it very easy for a while...
...green paneled room at 10 Aurangzeb Road, Delhi, Jinnah this week criticized Churchill's speech as misleading, urged an immediate "provisional composite government...
General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, India's Commander in Chief, broadcast from Delhi that danger was closer to India than it has been for 150 years. But what would save India, said General Wavell, was her "fighting men," not "undisciplined schoolboys" and "ignorant hooligans." Indians groaned at the slipshod arrogance of the military mind. They demanded, as before, that the Indian masses be armed and allowed to defend themselves under their own leaders...
...small but tightly organized Indian Communist party (suppressed for eight years until two months ago) urged mediation. The Hindu Mahasabe, third largest political party, issued a resolution which stressed the urgency of a national government. J. R. D. Tata, India's Henry Ford, flew from Bombay to Delhi to urge a settlement. The Untouchables favored compromise. India was uniting against the British. Even one of the Princely States was heard from...
Chubby, pleasant Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third and youngest (27) son, was jailed. A ban on news of rioting and criticism of the Government led Indian newspapers in Calcutta (15), Bombay, Lucknow, Nagpur, Delhi and Ahmadabad to close...