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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mohammedanism sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jinnah Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week Mohandas Gandhi showed that he was determined to go ahead in his anti-British campaign without Moslem Jinnah's support. He authorized a statement which even the bitterest Moslem would think reasonable: "If Britain fights for the maintenance of democracy, she must necessarily end imperialism in her own possessions and establish full democracy in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jinnah Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Although most opinions must be considered as tentative, Peterson stated that he had a good backstroker in Bill Drucker, who hails from New Trier High, in Illinois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 Swimming Prospects Look Promising to Coach Peterson | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must be convinced that Love is more important than a business career. Without too much trouble, however, she is brought around; and the result is, among other things, Carolyn Lee, another new child actress. Just as a footnote, Carolyn also learns about Love, and doesn't hesitate to point out such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...those die-hard idealists who thought that the new Russia was a religion, a state transecuded by a burning desire to bring peace on earth, good will to men. Soviet Russia, these disillusioned folk know now, is as lustful and cruel as her neighbors. Like her neighbors, she must look first of all to her own security and power. Nations have always committed murder and rape while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires and still succeed in selling the idea that they are battling for "the oppressed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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