Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Kingdom. Only people who are not Scottish Communists were in any way surprised last week when these intelligent Glasgow fellows welcomed Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, with loyal roars of "Good old Teddy...
...have risen from the malodorous sink which is below the lowest caste of India is Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, No. 1 Untouchable. This plump, cheery, bespectacled man of no caste, whose very shadow would outrage high-caste Hindus, managed to get a good education in Indian Government schools, was staked to courses at the University of London and Columbia University by the highly democratic Gaekwar of Baroda. Dr. Ambedkar is probably the only man alive who ever walked out in a huff from a private audience with the Pope of Rome. His Holiness Pius XI having heard from Dr. Ambedkar...
...that, argues the apologists of Weakness, would have made him madder and more maniacal than ever. Yes, but how dangerous is a madman if you have a gun to shoot him with when he gets funny? As for relative strength, look what Great Britain did to India with a few thousand soldiers, and who has heard of the Boers in all these years, though their hate at first after defeat must have been as great even as that of a Frenchman for a German...
...last week this luckless Hindu found himself inundated in Calcutta by an avalanche of suggested cures, but his offer was still open. Further suggestions may be addressed in care of Calcutta's great native newsorgan The Star Of India...
...Geneva and start the organization of a world economic conference, where Germany, Japan, Italy and all the rest of them can state their case. They know it better than we do. And I hope that in such an enterprise we will be big enough to let the people of India, Egypt and Africa participate in such a conference on equal terms and rights with ourselves...