Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madras, Jap warships and planes closed on a British merchant fleet. Some 500 survivors said nothing about air defense from nearby India, nothing of defense by any accompanying British warships. Tokyo later claimed that in this and other attacks, the Japanese sank 2 merchantmen, damaged 23 more. New Delhi admitted some merchant losses...
...Delhi radio, Sir Stafford Cripps's voice was level and controlled. But his self-control could not hide his enormous disappointment. With the Japanese on the road to Mandalay and their bombers already roaring over the Indian coastline, India's political factions had been unable to resolve their suspicions of each other and of Britain. Many observers felt that they had witnessed one of those rare occasions in history when great bodies of men, after years of misunderstanding and misdealing, had a precious chance for a real meeting of minds-and were prevented from doing so by their...
...until the last the outcome had been in doubt. For days correspondents sat in the sweltering Imperial Hotel drinking chota pegs* or nursing the local form of dysentery called Delhi belly, laying bets on Sir Stafford's efforts as though they were a horse race...
...DELHI--Japanese troops, after driving to within 40 miles of the Burma oil fields, have veered notheast in heavy force in an attempt to drive a wedge between British imperials defending that sector and Chinese troops battling along the Mandalay Road to the East, it was revealed tonight...
...history thus refused the spectacular, it was partly because the principal actor, Sir Stafford Cripps, was anything but glamorous. He stretched out the hand of British friendship, begging India to "accept and trust" it, but the proffered hand hung limp and ungrasped in the hot air of New Delhi...