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...army as thoroughly professional, and well able to handle almost any task assigned it. The rank and file are northerners and mostly from that cradle of warriors, the Punjab. The Indian army officer sometimes appears to be the very, very model of the British tradition: he has probably attended Sandhurst, speaks with an Oxford accent, plays polo and cricket, wears a mustache and carries a swagger stick. The first-rate Indian air force uses British twin-jet Canberra bombers and French Mystere jet fighters -all obtained by purchase, since Nehru believes that military aid would compromise India's traditional...
After only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...
With strong support in the grass roots, with a docile and hero-worshiping press and radio, Sandhurst-educated General Ayub Khan this week celebrated the first anniversary of his "benign dictatorship." Since peacefully overthrowing the corrupt and inefficient government of Iskander Mirza-which was democratic in name only-Ayub Khan has startled his countrymen and Western observers by fulfilling nearly every promise he made...
BRITISH SCHOOLING. Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dras Bandaranaike was a fellow student of Anthony Eden at Oxford; India's Nehru and the King of Buganda went to Cambridge. Pakistan's boss, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, was trained at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, as was India's Chief of Staff, General Thimmaya. Every fourth cadet on parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London...
...first was to promise elections this year of village panchayats (councils) to take over local police, judicial and administrative duties. Once the panchayats are functioning, work will begin on a new constitution. By starting at the bottom, Sandhurst-trained Strongman Khan hopes to build democracy slowly, from the bottom up, so as to avoid reinstating the corrupt...