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...free of other Indians. Each of the 14 major language groups demands a state of its own, and for two years a state commission has been earnestly redrawing boundaries to oblige them. From the start, the biggest trouble was expected from the state of Bombay's 16 million Maha-rashtrians, who reluctantly share a state the size of California with 11 million Gujaratis. Last week trouble came...
...from Burmese soil when an invitation went flying from Rangoon to London urging Britain's last Governor General in Burma, Sir Hubert Ranee, to come and spend a happy two-week vacation with his former subjects. When he got to Burma, Sir Hubert was awarded the title Agga Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, Earl Mountbatten...
Other forces were hammering away to exploit discontent. On the extreme right, the fanatical anti-Moslem Hindu Maha-sabha advocates war on Pakistan. Three times in recent weeks extremist revolutionaries have tried to assassinate Nehru. Bengal was warming to extreme left-wing Demagogue Sarat Bose, brother of notorious Subhas Bose, the pro-Japanese strongman whose devoted followers still refuse to believe that he was killed in 1945 in an airplane crash (in his Calcutta house, they still keep his clothes pressed, ready for his return). India's Communist Party is one of Asia's smallest (about...
...Crown Prince of Siam, Somdetch Chowfa Maha Vajirawudh, who is at present in America, will be the guest of the University on November 1. After looking over the various buildings the Prince will be given a lunch in the Union and in the afternoon he will be present at the Carlisle game...
Sanskrit Conference, 14. The Maha-Bharata. Professor Lanman. 9 Farrar...