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...handsome, swarthy Sirdar J. J. Singh, president of the India League of America, this was almost the end of a two-year fight. A 6-ft. Sikh from Kashmir, Singh had written thousands of letters, made hundreds of phone calls, tirelessly stalked Capitol Hill hallways. He had battled Congressional apathy, prejudice and plain ignorance. (Some legislators had thought he was talking about American Indians...
...mayor is plump, round-faced, impassive Chien Ta-chun, an old follower of the Generalissimo. Some 20 Chinese councilmen run the municipal departments, amid a plenitude of teacups, basins, hot towels and hot-water thermos jugs (the Chinese believe in working comfortably). You still see the picturesque bearded Sikh policemen directing traffic, but they will be repatriated. U.S. MPs and Shore Patrols are around, but they concentrate on buildings where Americans live...
...resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn Englishman...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...Viceregal Lodge, Gandhi was mobbed by uncontrollable crowds. A bearded Sikh photographer pointed a camera at him. The non-violent Gandhi grabbed the camera, tried to smash it, failed. The astonished Sikh resorted to passive resistance, made no effort to recover his camera...