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Closing Link. Four countries with 123 million people, reaching in an east-west chain from the Bosporus to the Himalayas (see map), are now-but for the formality of Iran's parliamentary approval-bound to come to each other's aid in the event of armed attack on any one of them. Between them, they have 50 standing divisions, some better than others, but all with a share of modern weapons. Through Turkey, on the west flank, they are linked with NATO; through Pakistan, on their east flank, they are linked with SEATO. Thus the Northern Tier completes...
Purpose of Nehru's speechmaking was to ask for calm and reasonable response to the implications of a report of his States Reorganization Commission, which has toiled for two years at redrawing India's map. The 29 states which now make up India are an administrative jumble whose boundaries bear little relation to the languages of their people or administrative needs of government. Some states have strong local governments, others are virtually run from New Delhi; some were shaped by the British, others by old princely fiefs and tribal conflicts...
...commission's plan (see map) is to reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers...
Whenever Bradley Smith checked the pins on his map and made this sort of announcement, his family knew it was time for him to shoulder his camera and set off on another expedition into the Northwest...
...Map Room's stock of American charts is complemented by the more modern collection of the Institute of Geographical Studies. Twentieth century surveyors, colonial mapmakers, as well as ancient French, Italian and Korean cartographers all contribute toward making the room in Widener worthy of a rainy afternoon visit. Those who are neither scholars nor tourists will enjoy the colored pictures...