Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back of the British imperial mind there has always lodged the desire of some day setting up a strong, independent Palestine and at the same time satisfying the Arab nations of the Near and Middle East. Reason: to safeguard for Britain her empire lifeline to India and the East. So if a showdown over Palestine had to come, it has long been a good bet that Britain's empire-conscious diplomats would decide the problem of the Holy Land in favor of the Arabs...
...Mahatma's spiritual appeal has long been powerful with the Hindu masses, but the radical Bose program, based on a frankly anti-British policy, has been strongly supported by Indian workers and peasants. For Britain there were definite signs of storms ahead. British viceroys and governors in India will no longer deal with "reasonable" Saint Gandhi and his followers but with the exacting, "unreasonable" Mr. Bose. And among the things Mr. Bose is known to have in mind to help "persuade" the British in India to give the country more self-rule are civil disobedience, a general strike...
Riots, brawls, bribery and fluent profanity have marked Burma's first two years of separation from India and partial self-rule. The new 168-piece Legislature frequently resounds to shouts of "You are descendants of dragons!" "May your bodies be eaten by crocodiles in the Irrawaddy...
...Paris Exposition of 1937 was a large map of Austria painted on the walls of the Austrian pavilion. The nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world...
Actually, of course, for many years Christianity has been spread in the East not only by missionaries but by the native Easterners whom they converted to the task. Most important aspect of the International Missionary Council meeting in Madras, India last December (TIME, Dec. 26) was that there, for the first time, Orientals mingled in equal numbers and on equal footing with Westerners. To show in their own persons what missionary Christianity is really like, last week some black, brown and yellow delegates from Madras were telling churchgoers in the U. S. about the Council meeting...