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...there has been none. The British built a fortress at Ramzak and managed to enforce a semblance of order by punitive expeditions and judicious bribery. But the Wazir chieftain, the Fakir of Ipi, also known as "the Firebrand,"kept a holy war going against the British. Every year, when the tribesmen drove their sheep into Kashmir to graze, the British actually induced them to check their weapons at collection centers. Theoretically, the new state of Pakistan was to take over Fort Ramzak and the Waziristan problem. Pakistan had neither the money nor the enlightened stubbornness to cope with them. Tribesmen...
...Ramzak . . . was intended ... to pacify the tribesmen once and for all. . . . All it has succeeded in doing . . . was to tie up between 5,000 and 9,000 Indian and British troops in a beleaguered fortress. ... All the same ... to have spent the last few days behind its doomed defenses was to fall inevitably into nostalgic and melancholy mood. Ramzak was a challenging flight of military fancy. ... It was called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June...
...about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...
...Friendship. Arab leaders, united in opposition to Zionism, were not uniformly zealous in planning war. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine decision...
...first ministry in 1940. A hard-working widower of frugal tastes, he lives in one room, takes all his meals at the Assembly restaurant, where the prix fixe is 120 francs ($1). The Nazis arrested him in 1940, but he escaped after seven months in a German fortress...