Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national conference delegates tented on the maharaja's once inviolable polo field, a five-man U.N. commission quietly pulled out of the maharaja's riverside guesthouse and left town. It was bound for Geneva to prepare a report on its failure to win an agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
...commission's final gesture, an arbitration proposal backed by the U.S. and Britain, had been accepted by Pakistan, rejected by India. Abdullah's delegates passed a resolution denouncing the "arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought...
...portents Indicated that India considered that the battle for Kashmir had been won-and that India intended to keep the prize...
...meetings in all important cities and communities, the organization of missions on college and senior high-school campuses, speeches and sermons by churchmen from other lands -England's Bishop Stephen Neill, China's T.Z. Koo, Mexico's Baez-Camargo, Scotland's J. Hutchison Cockburn, India's E. Stanley Jones...
...with one of the hardest currencies in Europe, groaned and devalued by 12.3%. Among the holdouts were Switzerland, Italy and Pakistan, but all of them faced trouble exporting their goods at the old exchange rates. Few were in the monopoly position of Pakistan, which seemed to have decided that India could not get along without Pakistani jute and cotton and would have to pay at the pre-devaluation rate for them. (India promptly raised cries of "blackmail...