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...country. It is also the scene of one of Britain's most dogged (and futile) essays in civilization. A ragged parallelogram of 5,200 square miles of barren territory, it is tucked away at the southwest corner of the North West Frontier, at a point where the Punjab and Kashmir reach out toward Afghanistan and Baluchistan. It is inhabited by various tribes who, finding their land too poor for a decent standard of living, have for years supported themselves by raids on their less impoverished neighbors...
Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...
White Blossoms. Roerich never returned to the U.S. With his wife and son he retired far from the world of Wallaces and Peglers to his beloved Kulu Valley in the Punjab, the "Silver Valley." "Whether in winter," he once wrote, "when the snowy cover sparkles, or in spring, when all the fruit trees are covered with snowy-white blossoms, the valley equally well merits this name." He had noted that its healthy people did not have cancer. There Roerich, drinking in the mysteries of Hindu and Buddhist shrines, also tried to learn what diet or beneficent rays or simple ways...
...West Punjab, Communist Party-Liner Iftikharud-Din was named Minister in Charge of Refugees, to keep him quiet. But he began urging refugees to demand division of the land, including estates of Moslem landlords, who are among Jinnah's chief backers. One procession of refugees, parading through Lahore, burst into the kitchen of the fat, well-fed Khan of Momdot, Premier of West Punjab and a Jinnah man. Outraged at the contrast between his food and the four thin cha-pattis (wheat pancakes) issued to each of them each day, the demonstrators paraded the Khan's lunch through...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...