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...gardens, Lord Wavell watched a team of bullocks draw a wooden plow through 70 acres of lawn. Maize, wheat and vegetables would grow there-too little and too late to relieve the famine that had already begun. Noting that few Delhi Britons followed the Viceroy's example, the Hindustan Times bitterly suggested: "Perhaps if the effect is heightened by alternating red tomatoes with green grass, New Delhi may be able to preserve its esthetic soul intact and appease the hunger of the masses. As for tampering with private rosebuds and dahlias, how can one expect New Delhi...
...battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter. At Karachi, Indian naval ratings seized the sloop Hindustan, dueled with British batteries along the waterfront for 25 minutes before running up the white flag...
...ruins of their country to say much about the plan. Twice contending armies had fought clear across the country, leaving blackened towns, blown-up bridges, ripped-up railroads, scuttled river craft. But their Indian neighbors, nursing their own frustrated dreams of independence, commented bitterly. Said New Delhi's Hindustan Times: "A vague promise of this kind, hedged round with such conditions that they can always serve as an excuse for doing little, is nothing but a cruel piece of casuistry." In London a Burmese moderate, Sir Htoon Aung Gyaw, adviser to the governor of Burma, warned Britain bluntly...
...India's industrialization. Her amiable automobile tycoon, Lord Nuffield, is now planning to make cars in India. The wealthy Birla Brothers would raise the capital of ?3,500,000 (about $14,000,000), Nuffield would supply the technicians and equipment. The new car will be called the Hindustan...
...Hindustan Times complained that Southeast Asiatic Commander Mountbatten's communiques were obscure. Retorted an official spokesman: "No more obscure than the military situation...