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Delhi in the spring heat of 1946 was not relaxed; it was taut with waiting, gravid with conflict and suspense. Two Socialist lawyers and a former Baptist lay preacher from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere...
...lifting also disclosed a taut, little major general who is as little known as the service which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify as a tank driver. A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list...
...taut months the country had watched the Raj's court-martial of three "Indian National Army" officers who had fought with the Japanese against Britain. More than 30 had been killed in protest riots (TIME, Dec. 3). A severe sentence might make these men martyrs, and touch off another nationalist explosion...
...hours the store was sold out. Among those who had waited futilely, frustration grew ungovernable. "The SS are back!" they screamed as the taut police finally dispersed them with flailing batons...
...this subject his audience was more taut. When Molotov promised that Russia would have "atomic energy and many other things," the party leaders cheered until bells rang to stop them...