Word: lia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tens of thousands of women. From one train arriving at Amritsar last week, 150 young girls had been taken. In Bikaner State, an official estimated that Sikhs fleeing there from Pakistan had lost 40 of their women. So grave had woman-stealing become that Pakistan's Prime Minister Lia-quat Ali Khan and India's Jawaharlal Nehru held special discussions about it last week; both Governments agreed to hunt out and return abducted women. It would not be easy. The women were scattered far & wide; those taken by Moslems were veiled in purdah. Harder still was the problem...
...Devil. Bern reported that German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had slipped into Italy for crucial talks with Italian Foreign Minister Raffele Guarig-lia (see p. 23). In any haggling with Germany, the Badoglio Government stood at a disadvantage. The Nazis held as hostages for Italian conduct some 400,000 Italian workers in Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance...