Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington to sell just that bill of goods. And yet it began to be realized in London last week that the Churchill Government has mishandled affairs in the Orient. The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India. A Cabinet shake-up was demanded...
What Lamar and Frank Swirles said about Navy made Hitler, Superman, and Punjab sound like timid Plebes. Henry began to apologize after the second man's description for using the same words over again, but apparently there are only a limited number of descriptive terms like "terrific" while the Navy has an unlimited number of men worthy of praise...
...April 1919, Indian Nationalist agitation racked Amritsar, in the Punjab of Northern India. When British officials arrested two Nationalist leaders, British agents were murdered, a bank was plundered, the city hall and a church burned. Europeans were attacked in the streets. On April 13, Brigadier General Reginald E. H. Dyer arrived with 600 troops, sent a drum crier through the streets shouting an edict which forbade meetings of more than three people...
...lasted for ten terrible minutes. "The targets," remarked General Dyer, "were good." The official casualty list was 379 killed, 1,200 wounded. From Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer, fire-eating Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, next day came the message: "Your action correct. Lieutenant Governor approves." Other Britons and most Indians decidedly did not approve the massacre of Amritsar...