Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answering every letter we receive is complicated by the fact that about one-sixth of TIME'S editorial mail is requests for information about, or suggested by, TIME stories. They range from the reasonable (requests for advice on the care and feeding of infants) to the sublime ("Do Hindus, Moslems and Mohammedans play organ music?"). They include urgent requests from doctors, lawyers, farmers, et al. Although TIME cannot always find the right answer, the batting average is high...
...center of the verbal whirlwind, Canada's second-class citizens (most of the Japs, like the Canadian Chinese and Hindus in British Columbia, cannot vote) watched in bewilderment man's inhumanity to man. Said Tokyo Morikawa, 30, Canadian-born: "The law regards you as a Canadian but you are treated as an alien...
...London) and Viceroy Lord Wavell (from New Delhi) tendered the Labor Government's new plan in fulfillment of its election promise to offer India Dominion status. Based on the abortive Cripps and Wavell Plans, both of which foundered largely on the failure of India's 256 million Hindus and 92 million Moslems to agree, the new plan promised self-rule (i.e., Dominion status) by degrees...
This time there was a chance of a more realistic proposal. The highest hurdle to communal agreement between Hindus (256 million) and Moslems (92 million) has been the Moslem League's demand for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state). Before he departed, the Viceroy made a decisive move to clarify this befogged subject: he proclaimed elections, the first in eleven years for the Central Assembly, in eight for the eleven Provincial Legislatures...
...earnest of his intentions, the Viceroy released eight Congress leaders interned since 1942, invited chosen representatives of all parties to Simla to discuss his plan. The talks proceeded briskly, but stalled on the clause granting organizational parity to Moslems and caste Hindus. Canny Jinnah balked at the prospect of being outvoted in a Hindu-controlled Council. Hastily the factions adjourned for further consideration...