Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loyalty to the British Crown is the only thing that forms a bond between Hindu and Moslem, Brahmin and non-Brahmin, Punjabi and Madrassi, British India and Indian States. Destroy that, and you have, by violating the most cherished sentiment of millions, erected an enduring and inseparable barrier to the achievement of a free Indian nationhood! "I can feel no doubt that this demand for independence must do an irreparable injury to India's cause, and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends...
...predominantly Hindu so-called Indian National Congress, met under the chairmanship of Pandit Motilal Nehru, and under the aegis of sainted Mahatma Gandhi. These two gatherings-neither of them Parliamentary or authoritative-speak for Mother India, insofar as she is articulate. The pity is that too often her Moslems and Hindus speak at absolute cross purposes. Last week, however, each assemblage met with fervent protestations that at last Hindu-Moslem unity against the British Raj was about to be attained. Dubious, sympathetic observers watched...
Reputedly the engagement was broken because His Majesty, a puppet of Signor Benito Mussolini, now aspires to wed a Royal princess. If his fanatical Moslem subjects permit him to turn Roman Catholic he may espouse Princess Giovanna of Italy. If that much mooted match proves infeasible, the Moslem King might conceivably marry one of the Moslem daughters of His Majesty Fuad I of Egypt. Unquestionably any princess who marries King Ahmed Zogu takes her life in her hands and risks the imminent possibility that her husband may turn corpse...
...troop of Anglo-Arab police perceiving the imminence of Moslem brickbats and desirous that the Day of Atonement should not become a day of stonement, tried to disperse the Jewish ululators...
Thereafter worship ceased, indignation meetings met. However, the National Council of Palestine Jews succeeded in quieting the outraged worshippers, by declaring that it would beseech the League of Nations to restore the Wailing Wall from Moslem to Jewish ownership...