Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unavoidable Minimum...
...Nowhere do you attempt to give any other than a superficial one-sided analysis of the blood-soaked scene. For two centuries the British exploited and perpetuated the medieval illiteracy and intense poverty of our masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds of thousands...
Ever since General Marshall left Shanghai, American policy regarding the Chinese has stayed in the doldrums, The State Department, unable to work itself in or out of the impasse which the Chinese civil war forced upon it, has bumbled along with a minimum of aid and a maximum of delay. Policy makers insisted all along that they were prepared to help China; but their plans included little beside conjecture...
...Hour Minimum...
...action taken by the Sophomore class ... was well-advised and the enthusiasm displayed encouraging," an editorial commented the following day, "but it remains to be seen if physical action will follow on parliamentary action ... Violence...should be kept to a minimum...