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Masters went to India as a 19-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst...
...little more than two years ago, without a struggle of any kind, the British agreed to withdraw from the Sudan as soon as an independent provisional government could "Sudanize" the administration and write its own constitution. Last November, 57 years after Sandhurst-trained Winston Churchill charged into the Battle of Omdurman, the regimental band of the Roy al Leicestershires played God Save the Queen and the last British soldier left the Sudan...
...academy, commanded by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, Sandhurst-bred leader of the neutral repatriation commission in Korea, flew only Indian flags. Marshal Bulganin, traveling as "plain Mister," sensed the soldierly restraint, but it was lost on the ebullient Khrushchev...
...Bengal landowner, Mirza is a Moslem aristocrat and autocrat. Says he bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with the 17th Poona Horse in Waziristan in 1924. He was Britain...
...full-dress rehearsal of last week's graduation parade at Sandhurst's Royal Military College, the hot-rodding Duke of Kent, 19, seventh in line to Britain's throne, marched smartly and looked none the worse for the recent wear and tear of his fourth car smashup in 13 months (Kent was at the controls in three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot...