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...Singh, 46, is a 6-ft, handsome Sikh from Kashmir, a confirmed bachelor, and a British subject. He came to the U.S. in 1926 to operate India's concession at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. He ended up too broke for passage home, stayed on, is now a successful, fluent New York importer...
When Lord Louis returned to crowded New Delhi, he established his headquarters in the palace formerly occupied by a Sikh maharaja. To insure greater harmony and constant exchange of ideas, Lord Louis insisted on having the highest ranking U.S. and British officers live and dine with...
Which way does a Sikh wind his turban...
...naive willingness to believe anything of the unpredictable Americans must have brightened the hard lot of Laurence Edmund ("Larry") Allen, if he heard it. The A.P.'s and the U.S.'s most embattled foreign correspondent was apparently a prisoner of war. He was aboard the British destroyer Sikh when she went down in Tobruk harbor, laying a smoke screen for the withdrawal. The U.P.'s George Palmer, only other U.S. correspondent accompanying the naval task force, escaped...
Said Churchill: The rejected Cripps proposal of post-war dominion status and a possible Hindu-Moslem partition "is the settled policy of the British Crown and Parliament." (While he spoke, responsible Hindu, Sikh and Moslem minority leaders demanded a wartime national government...