Word: rai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday in 1905, two young Sorbonne students climbed hand in hand up the long, steep stairs to Paris' Sacré Coeur. They knocked at a door which was opened by a strange, shabby old man with a walrus mustache. Young Protestant Jacques Maritain and his Jewish wife Rai'ssa had come to old Roman Catholic Leon Bloy for help. The Maritains were heavyhearted with questions, and they believed that Bloy, the outcast scourge of complacent Christianity (TIME, April 14, 1947), might have some answers...
...Hindu in Manhattan last week spoke out with subcontinent-sized statesmanship. He was warmhearted, mild-voiced Rai Bahadur Khanna, member of the Working Committee of the Hindu Mahasabha (India's third largest political party), who was in America with Britain's blessing as delegate to the International Pacific Relations Conference recently held in Mont Tremblant, Quebec. His program: > All controversial issues in India to be left in "cold storage" until war's end; > A British guarantee-now-for Indian independence as soon as the war is over; >A national government to be set up-now-to administer...
...Rai Bahadur Khanna said the Indian question must be settled now, because: 1) "the world will no longer feel vitally concerned about what happens in India after the war"; 2) the Axis is pouring out propaganda to the Indians and, though the great majority of them are anti-Axis, they listen "to get other than a British viewpoint on the war"; 3) "the longer the problem remains unsolved, the more the Indians will turn to extremists for a violent solution-on the basis that the moderates have failed...
...Thailand, probably long arranged, paved the way for an attack on Burma. A Japanese force cut up-country as fast as it could go. Perhaps as a pretext for invading Burma, the Japanese announced that the British, with some Chinese help, had pushed 30 miles into Thailand to Chieng Rai. This the British denied. The Japanese bombed Burmese airports to try to get air superiority...
...place in the Arab world secure. Feared and respected in Arabia even more than Lawrence was, Glubb Bey is now the rock under Britain's shaky Arab household. His quiet demeanor hides fighting anger which makes him deadly when aroused. Of all his colorful Arab nicknames Glubb prefers Rai el Boueidah (Guardian of the Little White Camel), which he earned for saving the life of a young camel during a skirmish...