Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem Majority. A series of triple plays made last week's agreement possible. The Sudan will reach freedom in three stages: 1) countrywide elections for a Sudanese parliament; 2) formation of a Sudanese government; 3) the Sudanese to decide, within three years, whether to join Egypt or remain independent. (Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden assured the House of Commons that Sudan could decide to join the British Commonwealth...
...Britain, will police the operation. The most important one is a commission which during the transition may veto acts of British Governor General Sir Robert Howe, uncrowned monarch of the Sudan. Two Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Englishman and a Pakistani will form the commission; thus it will have a Moslem majority-a concession by the British, who had long argued that the 2,000,000 half-clad, ignorant natives of the South Sudan had to be protected against the Arab majority in the north...
Pakistan's complaint is the latest of a series of bickerings that have kept Hindu and Moslem in a state of near-war ever since the British raj departed in 1947. And like most feuds between India and Pakistan, its roots reached back to partition-to the ingenious, twisting line drawn by Britain's Sir Cyril (later Lord) Radcliffe to divide India (pop. 350 million) from the widely separated halves of the Dominion of Pakistan: East Bengal (pop. 42 million), in the steamy Ganges Delta, and West Pakistan (pop. 33-5 million), a rain-starved country bigger than...
Starting from Scratch. When the late Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the patron saint of Pakistan, arrived in Karachi in 1947 to set up the Moslem state for which he had labored so long, he started from scratch. In the government buildings there was nothing but bare walls and a few rickety tables-no chairs, no typewriters, no files or filing system. Telephones were luxuries, and at first government orders were passed back and forth on scraps of paper; there were no bookkeepers, stenographers or clerks, for the simple reason that, in British India, Moslems were fighters and farmers but never office...
...rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife? She had better die!" That same night, a Moslem and another high-caste Hindu called on the same errand, got the same offer, gave the same retort. Next morning, Ida heard the tom-toms beat the death march for three Indian women who had died in labor. Did she belong in India, after all? She prayed for guidance...