Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smell of the Things." Later Churchill's hoarse voice, as he conferred with his front-bench colleagues, crashed into Sir Stafford Cripps's defense of Britain's quitting India. Cripps turned on Churchill, icily asked him to "cease talking so loudly." Sir Stafford suffered another interruption. Tory Robert Boothby broke in: "Is it in order for an honorable member to peel and eat an orange during the debate?" Solemnly the Chair ruled: "In this chamber one does not smoke, one does not chew gum, one does not eat chocolate and sweets, and one should not peel...
There was no laughter in either Prime Minister Clement Attlee or Winston Churchill as they resumed the India debate next day. Clem Attlee had to admit that administration in India had broken down to the point where Britain was no longer effective. Gloomily he warned that India was "a volcano of hidden fires," and "even as we are speaking tonight there are serious communal disturbances" (see below). But he argued against any "plea for delay . . . and inaction...
Following the Kapstein lecture will come five more forums, starting on Thursday, March 20, and concluding on April 24. These discussions will consider several Forster works, including his most famous, "A Passage to India." Other lectures will be on "A Room With a View," "The Longest Journey," and "Howard's End." The series will be filled out by a talk on "Forster as a Critic" on April 24 by Professor Robert Davis of Smith...
Best of the lot was a Dubliner whose name had none of the old sod in it. Louis Le Brocquy (rhymes with rocky), is only 29. His watercolors were roughly rubbed with wax and scarred with nervous jabs and dashes of India ink. He liked to paint Ireland's tinkers: the wandering tinsmiths and horse jobbers whose ability to turn broken nags into one-day blood horses, for sale at country fairs, is the stuff of Irish legend. One Le Brocquy painting of a little girl bathing in a canal (see cut) spoke of children everywhere...
...nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings - both medical and non-medical - and written half a dozen books...