Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked very well. Despite the diversity of our route through the 15 countries we visited, we were off schedule only once. The children turned out to be good travelers, resilient and resourceful, standing patiently through 26 customs examinations in 68 days on our way through southeast Asia and India, across a corner of Africa and into Europe, to Scandinavia, London and, via the Queen Elizabeth, New York...
...that India, Pakistan and Ceylon were full dominions, now that Britain's primacy in sea power and trade had departed, now that South Africa was heading down an undemocratic, anti-British road (see below), what was left of the easy trust and informal cooperation of the old Commonwealth...
Such considerations might hold Eire-and India-in the Commonwealth, but they would not take the place of "kingship and kinship," nor the place of the once-supreme British Navy...
...decade later young Sam Colt ran away from home and, aboard a ship bound for India, whittled the wooden model of a pistol that was to become the great Colt revolver. Sam did not (by 200 years) invent the revolver, but when he got into production he extended Whitney's interchangeable-part system in the direction of the present-day assembly line...
...conference got under way in a blaze of imperialist hope & glory. Leopold Amery, former Secretary of State for India, while supporting economic cooperation in Europe, denounced the idea of a European federation. "We can never subject our loyalty to Crown and Empire to some outside authority." The conference came out against freer trade, and for the Empire preference system...