Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partly Friendly. Then Viscount Mountbatten, clad in a dazzling white naval uniform, arrived with Lady Mountbatten. The crowd cheered him too, and a Scottish band, in kilts and Glengarry bonnets, piped a greeting. Shortly before their arrival, an Indian band, celebrating the separation of India's wandering child, had tooted somewhat tactlessly, "You'd Be Far Better Off in a Home."* Inside the Assembly Building, the Briton and the Moslem got down to the business of transferring power from the British Crown to the new dominion of Pakistan. It was a formal, cut-&-dried affair. Although Pakistan...
...sincerely hope that we shall remain friends," replied Jinnah with frosty politeness. There was a touch of doubt in his voice. He blamed the British for what he considered unfavorable Pakistan-India boundaries...
...spite of its sprawling unloveliness, Karachi is a bustling port (third biggest in India) and a center of the leather trade. The population swelled to almost 600,000 in recent years...
Last week Jinnah surveyed the city in which he was born. There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...presidency of the $66,800,000 American President Lines, Ltd., which is Government-owned but privately operated, has always been a political plum. When onetime Assistant Secretary of State Henry F. Grady resigned as president last April (to become the first U.S. Ambassador to India), he hoped for a break with tradition. He announced that he expected to be succeeded by Executive Vice President E. Russell Lutz, no politician. He was wrong. Last week, to fill the $25,000-a-year vacancy, the company chose lean-faced, natty George L. Killion, 46, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...