Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another explanation is in Edgar Baker's account of his round-the-world flight (48,000 miles) as manager of TIME-LIFE International's overseas editions, in which he covered 15,000 miles by air within the borders of India alone. The rest is a multiplication of these news and business activities at home in the U.S. and overseas-plus the convenience of air travel for getting our editors away frequently to see the rest of the world they write about, and getting correspondents home for personal consultation on critical issues in the news...
...Calcutta recently, frenzied Hindus and Moslems were knifing and beating each other to death. In this crisis, a septuagenarian Indian decided not to eat. The effect of the decision was miraculous. Almost immediately the murdering ceased, and temporarily and locally, at least, one of India's abysmal problems was resolved. This week, the Indian, Mohandas Gandhi, was in New Delhi. He had stopped his fast; now he tried prayers and meditation...
...what to do about it. Last week, Mr. Truman was aboard the battleship Missouri (see The Presidency), eating very well. He was due back in the White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated, if not as intense, as India's. They were world problems which the U.S., almost alone, had to solve. But Americans could not be expected to act without some leadership...
Political Crisis. There was the chain reaction of political crisis. There was scarcely a political area on the map of Europe or Asia that was unthreatened within or without. In Korea, U.S.-Russian negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
...Council's Yard efforts, including a discussion of freedom of the press and information by widely known newspaper editors. Last year this organization sponsored speeches here by Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the Security Council; Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, and V. K. Krishna Menon, India's foreign affairs advisor to Jawaharlal Nehru...