Word: hindustan
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...ways of looking at the statement. I believe in looking at the bright side. . . . It might be, however, that there is no bright side, but you will lose nothing by trusting." New Delhi's papers looked at the British mission in three ways, said goodbye with these headlines: Hindustan Times (Congress Party), "MISSION'S SUCCESS"; the Statesman (Tory British), "CONTRASTS"; Dawn (Jinnah's mouthpiece), "FAILURE OF A MISSION...
...news spread through the town, Moslem Leaguers and Congress followers marched through Simla's cool streets, shouting "Long live Pakistan!" and "Long live Hindustan!" Their cries roused sleeping monkeys in Simla's trees; they chattered long and mournfully into the night...
...Indians have too many children. Mohandas Gandhi disagrees. Although he and his wife practiced complete marital continence for 30 years before her death in 1944, he abhors contraception, has declared that it produces "nothing but harm." Last week, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas, hard-hitting editor of the Hindustan Times, made a far more eloquent defense of India's birth rate...
...Between mighty Russia to the north and the main body of India to the south, Pakistan would dangle like two withered arms. Only half the population of the area claimed for Pakistan is Moslem. None could claim that to split India in twain would solve the minority problem-in Hindustan there would still be islands of Moslems, in Pakistan large Hindu minorities. Jinnah has not concealed that behind Pakistan lies the ancient Asiatic practice of taking hostages; a Hindu minority in Pakistan could, "by reprisals, be made to answer Tor persecution of Moslems in Hindu India...
...stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...