Word: monsoon
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Maybe. None but the Jap knows whether he will attack India when the monsoon ends and the steaming, water-clogged delta lands of the Brahmaputra valley begin to dry. But a quick successful thrust at Calcutta could cripple 70% of India's war effort. From the Andaman Islands the Jap could crack by sea and air at the Trincomalee naval base in Ceylon, at Madras and at Calcutta...
...British and a few Americans, beset in India, grew tense at indications that the Japanese invasion forces in Burma awaited only the end of the monsoon rains this month...
...When the monsoon (political) weather ends in September and the dry (war) season sets in, the British case will be tested...
...Boer war. Here, more recently, they have interned Italians captured in North Africa. Here Nehru, who worked for Loyalist Spain, who cried out against Munich, who was shocked by Hitler's Brown Shirts and twice snubbed invitations for an interview with Mussolini, could look out bitterly on monsoon skies. Nehru alone knew what thoughts were in his mind. But once before in prison he remembered T. S. Eliot's lines...
...small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...