Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report said about Nigeria applied, in greater or less degree, to all colonial British Africa. The verdict was especially devastating in the light of the hopes that had been based on African development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...Gives the Most?" "I feel about Kashmir as one feels about a woman," says India's Premier Nehru, who comes often to sip the cold spring water in a Kashmir garden or to spin down the Jhelum River with Kashmir's Premier Sheik Abdullah (see cut). Many a tourist has shared his view, but last week the tourist flood that might have rushed to enjoy the coolness and romance of Kashmir's capital city Srinagar was dammed off by Nehru's government...
...other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
Officially, Pakistan was as altruistic as India. Its troops were there, said Jinnah's government, to prevent refugees from crossing the borders. Meanwhile, on a 300-mile front that stretched crescent-like across India's biggest state, the fighting raged in one of the strangest wars of modern times...
Last week, while the U.N. commission tried to find a way out for Kashmir, Correspondent Lubar conducted an informal poll by asking a Kashmiri if he knew what Pakistan was. He answered: "The place that belongs to Jinnah." Did he know what India was? "Yes, the place that belongs to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru." Which did he prefer? "The one who gives me most help...