Word: khans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona, wizened, rebellious, mystical Mohandas K. Gandhi last week began his tenth hunger strike since 1918. At the age of 74, Gandhi said that he planned to live on a diet of fruit juice and water for 21 days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance...
Punjab Province in India was curry-hot with religious conflicts and revolts against British rule until 1937, when moderate Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, member of a distinguished Moslem family, became Premier of the Punjab. By straightforward administration and sense-making pleas for Hindu-Moslem unity, he succeeded in uniting the major political parties of the Punjab's 28 millions-56% Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended...
...Genghis Khan fought his last important campaign when he was 42. Gustavus Adolphus was 38 when he was killed at the battle of Lützen. Eugene of Savoy was 34 when he beat the Turks at Zenta; he was 46 at Malplaquet; he was 53 at Peterwardein. Marlborough fought his last battle with Eugene...
Thoroughly disgusted, Allah Bakhsh, Moslem Premier of Sind Province and president of the All-India Azad (independent) Moslem Conference, returned to the government his Order of the British Empire and gave up his British title, Khan (prince) Bahadur. He announced that he was starting a movement of his own, to "fight British imperialism from within and foreign aggression from without...
...Genghis Khan solved the iron-ration problem by issuing each of his soldiers a straw so that his warriors could thus tap their horses' veins and drink the fortifying blood. The U.S. Army believes it may lick the iron-ration problem with Field Ration K-a three-meal package of concentrated food, which contains 3,726 calories and can be packed in a heat-and-cold-proof...