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...repatriation). When the first explanations bogged down, Indian newspapers automatically blamed the U.N. "The U.N. command has actually obstructed the neutrals' work," said the National Herald of Lucknow, which is run by one of Nehru's favorite editors. "The U.N. side has not played fair," cried the Hindustan Standard. "It has allowed prisoners to be influenced and indoctrinated...
That news got back to India. "Prisoners refused to come out," reported the Hindustan Times, "preferring even to be shot instead." And the Indian Express had this to say about the stalled Korean Peace Conference: "The Communist attitude strikes one as not only obstructionist and unreasonable, but also full of dangerous potentialities...
Devadas Gandhi, editor of the Hindustan Times, arrived in Manhattan looking for motion pictures of his late father Mohandas Gandhi. His project: a series of film biographies. Profits, if any, will go to ease the lot of India's lepers...
...pleasure of meeting the 'Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown-up children . . . Believe it or not, Americans can believe anything...
...Moslem, who had lost his leather works in riots at Amritsar, no longer cared whether he was in Pakistan or Hindustan. Unshaven and ragged, Chaudhri Ahmen Hasan wandered aimlessly among the ruins of his property, carrying a big framed photograph of Jinnah. From time to time Hasan paused and addressed the picture: "Are you happy now, Qaid-e-Azam [Great Leader]? You have at last achieved Pakistan...