Word: malik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...
...dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman at the head of the conference table...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...names submitted by both parties. If both parties disagreed with his choices, they might refuse to participate in the new government. If the League preferred to stay out, the Viceroy might form a new government anyhow, naming as Moslem ministers such nonLeague Moslems as the Punjab's Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana...
Outstanding portfolioists: Sir Hormasji Peroshaw Mody (Supply); Sir Akbar Hydari (Information), longtime President of Hyderabad's State Council; Malik Sir Firozkhan Noon, who has been High Commissioner for India in London, now made Minister of Labor just as India's war-production effort is making her an industrial country for the first time...