Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflicting promises, one to the Arabs, another to the Jews, for Palestine. Author Antonius does not lay the conflicting promises as much to British duplicity as to the fact that the British left hand often was ignorant of what the right hand was doing. The Foreign Office, the India Office, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Arab Bureau in Cairo all had hands in the Arab negotiations. Moreover, says the author, "it behooves the Arabs to remember that war and rectitude are not natural companions." He asks only that Britain now finally make up its official mind about Palestine...
Since the Moslem hierarchy of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Transjordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Yemen, India and Egypt must first decide on the choice of a Caliph, to cheers were premature but it was significant that among those cheering were Farouk's guests, the Emir of Yemen, Self-al-Islam Hussein, and Emir Feisal, the son of Saudi Arabia's King, Ibn Saud...
...Hollywood, Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
Although tea was first sold in England in 1657,* tea gardening remained a Chinese monopoly until 1834. That year, fearing invasion, China threatened to close her ports to foreigners and East India Company merchants promptly began tea cultivation in Assam. The wily Chinese foiled the first attempt by selling tea seeds which had been boiled. Even after cultivation got under way, it was not successful until an Englishman named Robert Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese and spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces...
...exported only about 100,000,000 Ibs. because native consumption is so large. With the Japanese now in control of the tea provinces, Chinese tea exports have been jumped, prices cut sharply under that of Empire tea. And Empire prices may soon be forced up if India's Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose succeeds in his current campaign to jack up tea laborers' wages, now 15 shillings a month for men, ten for women, three for children...