Word: firozkhan
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...Firozkhan Noon, chief collector of British honors among the Moslems (K.C.S.L, K.C.I.E., Hon. LL.D., Toronto, Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford), mounted the platform. "From now on," he proclaimed, "I am Mister Noon." (Cracked one Hindu columnist: "Twilight would have been a better word than noon...
...wealthiest of Moslem leaders, Sir Firozkhan Noon, a Punjab landowner, did not hesitate to wave the Red flag; "If neither [the Hindus nor the British] give [Pakistan] to us . . . if our own course is to fight, and if in that fight we go down, the only course for Moslems is to look to Russia. ... I will be the first to lose every rupee I have in order that we may be free in this country." Five thousand Moslems cheered. Even the women in the purdah enclosure to the left of the platform could be heard-applauding behind their screen...
Outstanding portfolioists: Sir Hormasji Peroshaw Mody (Supply); Sir Akbar Hydari (Information), longtime President of Hyderabad's State Council; Malik Sir Firozkhan Noon, who has been High Commissioner for India in London, now made Minister of Labor just as India's war-production effort is making her an industrial country for the first time...
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