Word: harrovians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simla, India's cool summer capital, an old Harrovian, Indian Nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, and other Indian leaders will confer this week with Viceroy
Tall, trim Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Governor-eject of Burma, arrived in London impatient to dispel two nasty suspicions: 1) that many of the Burmese people had helped the enemy into their country; 2) that evacuating British forces had left Burmese earth unscorched. Said Old Harrovian Sir Reginald: "The Burmese with any stake in the country played the game by Great Britain. When the invasion began, the Japanese did not succeed in winning over a single Burman of any weight...
...Harrovian had been trying to put a good face on things with a bit of guff, he had been ingenuous. The left-wing Tribune screamed bloody murder: "The best people stood by us. What the common herd did doesn't matter. British imperial rule defined in a flash!" Sir Reginald thereupon edited his remarks. Only 4,000 of Burma's 15,000,000 people had actively helped the Japs, said he; they were extremists of the nationalist Thakin Party...
Like his heroes, Nehru is an intellectual far ahead of the mass of his people, and not quite like them. For though the emphasis in Glimpses of World History is Asiatic, Old Harrovian Nehru is himself an imperfect amalgam of East and West...
...India's disunited, -disaffected Hindus, Moslems, Princes and Untouchables. And there was widespread fear, both at home and abroad, that Britain's something would not only be late but far from enough. A fortnight ago, when Winston Churchill in his Cabinet shuffle failed to remove his Old Harrovian friend, crustily conservative Secretary of State for India Leopold Stennett Amery, many took it as a bad sign for India's political hopes...