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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow Conference on Germany and Austria convened, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov remarked that the situation in China had not improved since the Foreign Ministers discussed it in 1945. (The interval had seen a full-scale civil war between Molotov's fellow Communists in China and the Chinese Government.) Molotov asked that the U.S., Britain and Russia exchange information on China. Secretary Marshall agreed, asked for time to consider the procedure for discussion...
...After three days & nights of terror, in Rawalpindi proper the situation is now fairly quiet, but in the surrounding countryside there is a reign of lawlessness on a scale not known in British India since the Mutiny of 1857. Every village is prey to roving gangs. Groups of scared refugees flee through the fields as gangs of 15 to 30 men trudge the highways, armed with long, dangerous-looking clubs. From the crest of one hill, I could see five villages burning. At Mandra junction at dawn on March 9, 2,000 Moslems swooped down on Hindu and Sikh quarters...
...voters know what is going on in City Hall, but the peculiar makeup of the electorate forestalls any large scale action or indignation. The great middle class, always the backbone of reform movements, has deserted the city for the cleaner suburbs with attractive school systems and play space for its children. Left behind to vote in the metropolis is the Beacon Street Brahmin class, snowed under, as Lyons puts it, by the clannishness of the low income groups...
Resuming full scale activity reminiscent of pre-war years, members of the club contemplate summer climbs in Alaska, Peru, Switzerland, and western U. S., and Canada...
...those days, this was satire. Today, however, a song called "For Sentimental Reasons" is just fading out after about ten weeks of huge popularity, and both in its lyrics and its music it has "Love Is Like a Rose" all beat, right down the scale from conventionality to absurdity...