Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress Working Committee was rumored to be balking at the plan, not for the future, but as giving India too little control over its war effort. On the other hand, the plan's provisos for local self-determination seemed to have quieted Congress Party-Moslem League friction. Many observers felt that, under such self-government as the plan proposed, demands for a separate Moslem State would evaporate...
Viceroy. The Indian apologists, at their best, reveal a passionate conviction; the British, a rational caution. There could be few better examples of this typical British temper than Scottish Viceroy Linlithgow. He is a model of sober British effort, often suspected of misunderstanding, frequently attended by friction. Son of Australia's first Governor-General, he was born to great wealth, went to Eton, served throughout World War I, thereafter specialized in agriculture. In 1926-28 he traveled exhaustively in India as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Agriculture. Later he served on the Parliamentary committee which formulated...
Other probable friction: a steady drop in Observer circulation (from an estimated...
There had been friction between General Gordon Bennett and the British High Command. The Australian's dislike for Air Chief Marshal Sir General Robert Brooke-Popham was embarrassingly obvious. But Henry Gordon Bennett was a valuable soldier, and his supposed capture, obligingly confirmed by the Japanese, was a blow to the Allies...
...Colonel Lanser arrived, and told the Mayor: "We want to get along as well as we can. You see, sir, this is more like a business venture than anything else. We need the coal mine here and the fishing. We will try to get along with just as little friction as possible." He added that the people must go on working the mine. "But suppose," said the Mayor, "the people do not want to work the mine." "I hope they will want to," said the Colonel, "because they must." He explained that the Mayor would continue to give orders. Said...