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...well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...
...chief virtue. It is mainly concerned with the interplay of the emotions and desires and actions of a group of people in a given setting, complicated by the influences and forces that their foreign environment brings to bear on them. Mr. Cozzens uses Cuba much as Kipling used Simla. And as in Kipling, the writing is character portraiture, rather than development. Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with its penchant for neutrals. The effects must be created quickly--partly because so many, almost too many, characters are introduced--and the characterization is more...
...level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor car and whisked 14 miles to the comfortable Viceregal Lodge at Simla...
...robust, hearty Viceroy Irwin prepared to return from Simla to his Capital at Delhi, despatches told that he had "benefited immensely" by his Himalayan tramp and scramble...
Fashionable Simla, mountain resort of Sahibs, got this news, got also news of riots at Amritsar, scene of hideous British butcherings in 1919. Something more serious than anti-moviedom seemed to portend