Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since it involved explaining about the King & Mrs. Simpson to British subjects, most of whom have never heard of her. Next day Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King-Emperor and Wallis Warfield Simpson...
...packet of letters from Lawrence which were extracted from him by ingenious Ernest Thurtle, a Manhattan-born member of the House of Commons. In 1929 Mr. Thurtle rose in debate to expostulate against the alleged Afghanistan activities of Lawrence, who was then flying with the Royal Air Force in India as "Aircraftsman Shaw...
...heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost as much against...
...excepting Ethiopia and Liberia, previous to the World War. There did not seem to be much difference between these aggressions and Italy's, except that hers had been committed after the World War, which was presumed to have ended aggression, but hadn't. ... As had happened in India and elsewhere, my preconceived ideals were reluctantly shouldered aside by less high-minded, practical considerations." After flying home on the Hindenburg, Webb Miller retreated last May to Connecticut to write his book...
GLORY'S CHILDREN-Hilton Brown- Knopf ($2.50). Less like The Forsyte Saga than a thick family album, the story of a hard-headed Scotch ex-sailor who founds an industry and a large family in India, neither of which turns out well...