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With appropriate fireworks and flag-waving, the former British Dominion of Pakistan last week celebrated its official birth as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Governor General Iskander Mirza was formally inaugurated as President, replacing Queen Elizabeth as chief of state. To observe the occasion, the U.S.S.R.'s brush-mustached First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flew in with an eleven-man Russian delegation. Ignoring the rude remarks directed at pro-Western Pakistan by Bulganin and Khrushchev on their recent visit to India, Mikoyan quickly got down to business. Russia, he said, "is prepared to give Pakistan all the industrial...
Even a topheavy Pakistani victory by seven wickets did not smooth Pakistani feelings-nor did a formal apology by Britain's Deputy High Commissioner J.M.G. James to Governor General (now President) Iskander Mirza, who is also the Pakistani cricket board president. "English players' defeats have upset their mental balance," said Lahore's Civil and Military Gazette. "Britain's sportsmen show irritability, and resort to indecorous behavior in defeat," added the Pakistan Times. At home the English press called the cricketers "graceless boors . . . bad losers . . . bullies." Said the London Times: "Hooliganism has blotted Britain's reputation...
...Former governor of Maine (1945-49), president of Bucknell University (1949-53). His eldest daughter Josephine in October 1954 married the son of Pakistan's strongman, Governor General Iskander Mirza...
...Must Go. Pakistan's new strongman, Governor General Iskandar Mirza, who believes his country ready only for "controlled democracy" (TIME, Aug. 15), recognized that Premier Mohammed Ali, though he had served his country well by obtaining U.S. economic aid at a critical moment, had no following in the Assembly. He had to go. The only way for the Moslem League to stay in power was to make a deal with one of its opponents. Skillfully playing the opposite leaders against one another, the Leaguers made a deal with aging and fat Fazlul Huq. Result: Huq, last year dismissed...
...Humayun, a son by Mirza's first wife, from whom he is now separated, last year married Josephine Wing Hildreth (Vassar '54), daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Horace A. Hildreth...