Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir: ... I feel impelled to congratulate your author on an amazingly colorful piece of accurate writing. My 23 years in India says he knows what he is talking about...
...Sir: . . . Nowhere do you attempt to give any other than a superficial one-sided analysis of the blood-soaked scene. For two centuries the British exploited and perpetuated the medieval illiteracy and intense poverty of our masses, by stifling all industrial and educational development to the unavoidable minimum. Rigidly enforced legislative measures magnified petty local differences to a vast national scale, where Hindus and Moslems secured desperately needed government jobs mainly on a religion basis, till in the ensuing bitterness and frustration a power maniac like Jinnah could suddenly leap out of the shadows and, screaming wildly, lead hundreds...
...Sir: In TIME, Oct. 13, you wrote: "One of the most shocking facts of recent history is the moral imperturbability with which democratic nations, like the U.S. and Britain, have handed over millions of people in eastern Europe to the inhuman mercies of a police state...
...Sir: In the story of the controversy between Dr. Fisher of Canterbury and Bishop Barnes of Birmingham [TIME, Oct. 27], I note a penetrating description of a general problem of a "liberal" interpretation of the Christian faith. But I believe the conclusion that "the Apostles' Creed means what it says" is an oversimplification of a much deeper problem...
...Sir: If the Bishop of Birmingham had investigated the genetic possibilities of the "Virgin Birth," he would have found that the development of the unfertilized eggs of mammals, including man, could have produced only female progeny...