Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi, India...
...March 21, 1943, Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Commander of the China-Burma-India Theater, Chief of Staff to Chiang Kaishek, wrote to his wife in Carmel, Calif. In the letter he enclosed the following verse...
...more important and troublesome aspects of his mission and turn to the jobs he could do well: troop training and tactical command. He believed that the Chinese soldier could be made into a first-class fighting man, and he proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced." The accent is on "divisional...
...even possible that as, under the Roman Empire, Christianity drew out of and inherited from the other Oriental religions the heart of what was best in them, so the present religions of India and the form of Buddhism that is practiced today in the Far East may contribute new elements to be grafted on to Christianity in days to come. And then one may look forward to what may happen when Caesar's Empire decays-for Caesar's Empire always does decay after a run of a few hundred years. What may happen is that Christianity...
...study of "Economics for the Citizen" by Seymour E. Harris, and two courses on the civilization of India and the Near East in the Social Sciences round out the new offerings...