Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...
...week's end small gangs of Communist terrorists were getting revenge. In the Calcutta area they bombed an airport and engineering works, killed seven people. The raids were timed as a warning to Prime Minister Pandit Nehru who had announced he would address India's legislative assembly on Communism...
...high-ranking official explained what the government was afraid of: "The Communists know we are caught in a vicious circle. To save India from disorder and Communism we need to raise living standards. To raise living standards we need order. So it goes, round and round...
...U.S.I. and to the Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control of its military and foreign affairs. After two years of independent administration, the Republicans were unwilling to compromise and began to court the friendship of India and the Arab States. Within four months, the Dutch resorted to military measures to remedy an "intolerable situation...
...January 22, representatives of 19 Asiatic nations, assembled in India by Nehru, demanded that the Dutch cease military activity immediately, withdraw to their lines of December 18, and reestablish the Republic by March 15. The UN passed a similar resolution five days later, calling for a constituent assembly by July 1950, followed by a transfer of sovereignty to the U.S.I., but not specifying the withdrawal of Dutch troops...