Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was Mohamed Ali Jinnah up to? In a sharp reversal of his policy of last July the lean, leathery Moslem League leader agreed last week to nominate five men to the All-India Congress presided over by his archrival, Pandit Nehru. But he had named third-raters: in New Delhi, prominent Moslems boasted that the League had joined the coalition with the idea of breaking...
That peace had not accompanied coalition soon became evident. In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
Riots & famine. The new government faced even more pressing problems. In Bengal and Madras provinces, acute food shortages threatened to produce isolated pockets of starvation, while Moslem outbreaks (minor but persistent) and strike-crippled rail system threatened to paralyze transportation. Last week, even the hope' of aid from abroad was deferred: the U.S. shipping strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had tied up 225,000 tons of wheat; Siam failed to deliver any of its promised rice shipments; Indonesia delivered but a few thousand tons of the promised 700,000 tons of paddy (unmilled rice...
Mohamed AH Jinnah (whose Moslem League is boycotting the new government) was less ambiguous. Said he suggestively: "The Russians have more than a spectator's interest. . . . They are not very far from India...
...shudder passed through the Moslem world last week: three sacred hairs from the beard of the Prophet Mohamed were missing from each of two Istanbul mosques...