Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection with dacoity. Aung San (whose thousands of turbulent followers like to call themselves the "Irish of the Far East") had once collaborated with the Japanese and later, when the war's tide was turning, went over to the Allies. As the hope of independence grew in neighboring India, Aung San's demands for Burmese freedom have become more threatening. With Sir Henry Knight in Rangoon, however, Aung San might think twice before acting. In India 15 years ago, Knight had crushed a local civil-disobedience campaign by summarily executing six of its leaders. *Robbery by a band...
What should have been a week of triumph and hope for India was a week of confusion, riots, petty bickerings and incredible irrelevancies...
Things were so bad that Mohandas Gandhi devoted his weekly day of silence, when he usually gets a rest from the questions*that pour in from all over India, to fuming and fretting over the big question of Congress cooperation in an interim government...
Britain's Foreign Office, which has always kept a jealous eye on the "gateway to India," remained mum, the War Office referred callers to the India Office, the India Office said: "No importance...
...point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...