Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the United Nations Security Council reminded the world of one of the greatest Pakistan-India problems by choosing Sir Owen Dixon, 63-year-old justice of Australia's High Court, as mediator in the Kashmir dispute. Kashmir, with a 77% Moslem population, was sold by the British in 1846 to a Hindu prince, has been under Hindu rule ever since...
...stiff opposition of Hindu extremists in Nehru's cabinet puts him in political danger if he cannot keep Kashmir for India. His agreement with Liaquat Ali last week cost him the resignations of two Moslem-hating cabinet members from riot-torn Bengal. The Kashmir mediation will be a stiffer test of whether Nehru and Liaquat Ali can make their agreement work...
Even Europeans, usually not molested in communal troubles, were not safe. Alexander Leslie Cameron, 49, president of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and one of the leading British businessmen in India, tried to protect a friend's Moslem bearer from a mob, was himself beaten to death...
...second voyage he got a better boat. But once ashore, the pilgrims' troubles began in touristic earnest. They were put through a rigorous customs and herded into a "bare, stinking stable ground" for lodging. Instantly, a horde of Moslem peddlers descended, offering "rushes and branches of trees to lay on the ground . . . water of roses . . . balsam . . . musk ..." Young Arabs so annoyed the pilgrims with their pilfering that the pilgrims were forced to hire watchmen to keep the intruders...
...high points of the pilgrimage were the vigils in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But by the third vigil, familiarity had so far bred irreverence in some of the company that they desecrated the shrine outright-bargaining with the Moslem merchants, "swilling [strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics...