Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since India surrounds Hyderabad, Patel and Nehru could probably make good their threat. The Nizam, however, had a counter-threat. A dagger-eyed little man named Kasim Razvi calmly threatened to protect Hyderabad by starting another series of India-wide communal massacres...
Stab in the Back? Razvi's threat is no idle one. If the Indian army invaded Hyderabad, Razvi's Razakars would kill Hyderabad Hindus. Throughout India Hindus would retaliate against Moslems. Knowing this, Indian leaders might settle for something short of accession, but insist that Razvi must go and the Razakars must be disbanded. India, still dangerously close to war with Pakistan, could never be comfortable with Razvi's fifth column in its midst. Last week Hyderabad's Prime Minister Mir Laik Ali said: "India thinks that if Pakistan attacks her, Hyderabad will stab...
...there to be a real boycott of British films? No, said Sir Alexander Korda's U.S. representative, but some U.S. distributors were using the threat of boycotts and pickets as an excuse not to show British pictures. He thought that it was "retaliation, perhaps only subconscious," for British restrictions on Hollywood films. "Until the trouble blows over," Korda announced last week, he will not release in the U.S. four films already scheduled for showing: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Fallen Idol, The Winslow Boy and The Small Back 'Room...
Television looked like a threat to the picture services, if a distant one. As an experiment, the New York Star last week published three pictures of the Democratic Convention photographed in Manhattan from a television screen by an ordinary camera (and no flashlights). LIFE also ran similar pictures this week. Acme, the New York Post and the New York Daily News have also taken pictures from television screens. Their results, like the Star's, have been too fuzzy and distorted to run as news pictures, though no worse than the early wired photos. But television will improve...
...these moments occurs when, at 22, he first takes the hand of the twelve-year-old girl he loves. She loves him, too, and their hearts are faithful through years of separation brought on by evil gossipers and the threat of arrest for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...