Word: sikhs
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...while, in the shadows at the back of the hall, sat a swart, beady-eyed Indian Sikh who neither laughed at Sir Michael's jests nor applauded his jibes. Udham Singh Bawa had left India seven years ago, reaching Europe by way of California and Brazil. For five years he had lived a hermitic existence in England, his one thought to avenge a brother killed at Amritsar...
Plenty also happened in China to keep U. S. eyes westward to the East. When a Chinese policeman was killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe...
...Chief Secretary and that today his influence in Canton is worth a $200,000 bribe proffered him last year by the Chinese Government (TIME, July 23). It would be cheaper to jail or exterminate Mr. Hu, but he is careful to live in British Hongkong, with strapping Sikh police posted day and night before his strongly built house, all doors and windows of which are barred with elaborate iron gratings...
...dead." Perturbed. His Majesty's Government cabled the Speaker of India's Council of Princes, the pearl-bedecked Maharaja of Patiala, a pressing invitation to speed to London. Though Patiala is neither the biggest nor the richest of Indian States, it is the key State of the Sikh tribes of the Northern Punjabi plains which furnished nearly half of Britain's Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus one of the most politically potent Princes in India. A huge, sinister...
...agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...