Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi last week that airplane pilots clad only in shorts said they were still comfortable at 20,000 feet. Was Mohandas Gandhi crazy with the heat...
From the capital at New Delhi, India is now covered by a full contingent of newly arrived U.S. correspondents from A.P., U.P., I.N.S., CBS and NBC. Thus is created a new U.S. newsfront. Least well covered of all major countries, India was formerly a kind of Dark Continent for U.S. newspaper and wire services. Exception was the occasional flying interview with Gandhi. Until the fall of Singapore, the only U.S. news bureau established in India was TIME...
Afterward, General Brereton returned to New Delhi and the high-ceilinged hotel rooms where he transacts these days some of the most important business of World War II. He talked with officers, just back from hard-hit Burma, where he had sent them to study at first hand the sore need for air defense. In this same week, he flew across Rajputana to Karachi, India's great northern port on the Arabian Sea. He flew to southern India. He saw the signs of a vast job quickly done, but not yet completed: U.S. planes, pilots, crews, airdrome ground forces...
...Delhi, Brereton deposited Baby with Lloyds Bank, took one drink, put his gun in a desk drawer, and paused to ponder his asset: the cash; faith in Washington; faith in his own judgment that a mighty air striking force could be amassed in India. A few days later, 17 officers and men followed him to India in a PBY flying boat. They were the nucleus of his staff...
When Brereton's men first assembled in New Delhi, turbaned maharajas in the convening Chamber of Princes, and members of India's Legislative Assembly, crowded the city's hotels. Miss Hotz, manager of the Cecil Hotel, offered Brereton & staff tent space on the garden lawn. "But, oh, Miss Hotz, you will spoil the hollyhocks," a woman guest protested. Miss Hotz risked the hollyhocks. Later, Brereton found working and living space at another hotel, where an air conditioner presented by General Motors officials in Bombay now cools his sleep and labors...