Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sir Hubert, Burma's Governor, arrived in Rangoon a few months ago, he gave a reception in the palatial red brick Government House. During the Japanese occupation, Government House furniture, along with the habit of obedience to British rule, had disappeared. For the party, Sir Hubert's aides scouted up some furniture looted by the Japanese. The guests were fascinated by the decor. Burman leaders wandered about Sir Hubert's rooms pointing to chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north...
There, in 1938, George MacLeod began to gather about him a group of young ministers and laymen. Together they evolved their own Rule of faith and worship-a Rule which makes them seem at once as mystical as Franciscans and as hardheaded as Stalinists...
...against a quintet from Arlington High School. Since hockey is emphasized more in the New England areas than in other parts of the country, Boston high schools generally turn out a crop of good puckchasers and this year's Arlington outfit appears to be no exception to the general rule...
...damned and praised institutions, the Indian Civil and Police Services. The question boiled down to a matter of severance pay; the 850 remaining British members wanted to get out. It was up to Patel to find the new men who, with the 750 Indians in the two Services, would rule India.* Nehru called twice. He and Patel have a deep bond of mutual attachment to Gandhi and to Indian independence. Otherwise, politically and temperamentally, they are antipodal. Two subjects almost certainly mentioned in Nehru's bedside talks with Patel were the Moslems and the Marxists...
Underlying cause of it all: discontent with oldtime governors and bosses who give lip service to the ideals of the revolution, political support to the regime in Mexico City, but rule their own states for themselves and their relatives. The rise of a new type of governor interested in being a good public servant, in pushing good roads and building schools, has compounded the impatience...