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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later Earl of Beaconsfield, who preached exactly the same sort of utilitarian imperialism, made his Queen Empress of India, bought the Suez Canal to develop Britain's oriental trade and to protect her Manchoukuo: Egypt. Disraeli was just as convinced as any Japanese today that his country must be master of the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Fissiparous Tendencies | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Near Kolhapur, India, a snake dropped from a tree onto a ferryboat. The passengers rushed to the other side of the boat, which turned over, drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Father | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Untouchables. The depressed and malodorous Untouchables of India will not only vote for the new Indian legislatures, but they will vote at the same time and at the same polling places as other Hindus as a move toward breaking down caste restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Disposed of? | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Indian Ulsters. British officials like to call the complex states of Bengal and Punjab the Ulsters of India. There the pugnacious Moslems are in actual majority, but most of the money, most of the educated classes, nearly all of the newspapers, are Hindu. In the Punjab, whence come the bearded fighting Sikhs of the Indian army and police force, the Moslem peasants are hopelessly in debt to crafty Hindu moneylenders. The MacDonald commission has solved the problem of the Indian Ulsters to its own satisfaction by not giving the Moslems a statutory majority in either province but protecting their rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Disposed of? | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Communalist bullies have won the day. MacDonald has paid his reactionary supporters the price of his office. Churchill and his understudy at the India Office have realized their dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Disposed of? | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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