Word: threshold
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Neutrality & Neighbors. Afghanistan is now on the threshold of a vast modernization program under the direction of Public Works Minister Mohamed Kabir Ludin, a Cornell graduate, whose Chief Engineer is John B. Alexander of Portland, Ore. They are now assembling material and workers to build roads, irrigation projects, airfields, hydroelectric plants and schools...
...have turned their backs on the starving millions in India. UNRRA does not operate in India, and relief officials in Washington have satisfied themselves that they have adequate reasons for refusing to sell to India the wheat she has offered to pay for in British pounds sterling. On the threshold of nationhood, her population totalling one-fifth of the people of the world, India is repeatedly enduring conditions of hunger and famine...
...just to keep the anti-Sassenach franchise, the Irish Government in the same week banned as unfit for Eireannachs to read a book called The Threshold of Marriage. The book was published by the Church of England...
...racial-discrimination laws covering Indian nationals. The Indian evidence against South Africa was strong enough, but the plight of 250,000 Indians in South Africa was scarcely as important last week as the plight of 389,000,000 Indians in India, who, instead of standing happily on the threshold of independence, were faced with famine and a growing chance of political chaos...
Nearby, strategic Ceylon also moved closer to independence last week. London announced a new constitution which will bring Ceylon to the "threshold of Dominion status," with self-government, except in defense and foreign affairs. But across the Bay of Bengal the British would promise Burma nothing more than a new election and broader popular government before June 1947, "if all goes well...