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When Moslem tribesmen, apparently with Pakistan's sanction, raided Kashmir in 1947, Nehru refused to turn the other cheek. He ordered the Indian army to move and restore order. Cried he: "Aggression of every type must be resisted." Since then, largely on legalistic grounds which add up to a stubborn "They started it," Nehru has refused all U.N. proposals to settle the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan (TIME...
Like U.S. Presidents before F.D.R., the rain queens who rule over the Lovedu tribesmen in Africa's northern Transvaal are expected voluntarily to limit their own terms of office. When a rain queen's powers are on the wane (at the age of 60 or thereabouts), tradition calls for her to retire into the hills and quaff a poison compounded of crocodile entrails. This was the way it was in the days of Mujaji I and in the days of Mujaji II (the light-skinned queen who served as a model for H. Rider Haggard...
...deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some 4,000,000 Berber tribesmen.* Sometimes called the French Sultan, El Glaoui had acquired wealth and power as a result of past loyalty to the French...
...Many Birds Will Come." The man credited with solving it was bearded Orlando Villas Boas, who had parleyed with the Kalapalos for five years. From the first, the tribesmen admitted knowing Ingueleze, as they called Fawcett, but always insisted that their neighbors, the Iarumas, had murdered him. In time the canaiba (white man), with his friendly talk and timely gifts of pots & pans, gradually overcame their suspicions. Last year a newly elected chief, Komatzi, hesitantly confided to Orlando the reason why his people feared to talk about Fawcett. "Many birds [i.e., airplanes ] will come," he said, "carrying many canaibas...
...Correspondent Crane, there were more important things to talk about than love on that autumn day in 1947. Civil war raged through India's Kashmir, and swept over the cream-colored British Catholic mission where he had arrived a few days before, looking for a story. Bloodthirsty Pathan tribesmen had swarmed down from the north, seized the mission and taken their revenge by slaughtering some of the Hindu refugees hiding there...