Word: nagaland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kehoe had volunteered for the job. A West Pointer of the class of 1918, he resigned from the Army soon after World War I, asked for active service again after Pearl Harbor. British officials, whose effective administration stops short at Nagaland, soberly advised against his mission; but after a thorough aerial reconnaissance of the saw-toothed, jungle-matted mountain ranges, Trader Kehoe jumped off with their qualified blessings...
...along well with the Nagas, mainly through good nature and quick thinking. There was the case of Sergeant X, in charge of a remote post, who was suddenly confronted by a powerful chieftain demanding nothing less than a formal treaty guaranteeing that the Americans would not settle in Nagaland but return home...