Word: frontierisms
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Jinnah's Power. Equally heartening to Jinnah last week was the formation of a coalition Moslem League ministry in the North-West Frontier Province. This brought the governments of four of the five Pakistan provinces under Moslem League domination, after a series of involved political maneuvers in which the Congressites accused the British Raj of building up Jinnah as proof that Indians cannot unite politically...
Policy for Plenty. View the world as a challenge to investment, a challenge to the American sense of project and the frontier, and the outlines of the postwar money problem assume a definite shape...
...tangled jungle across the saw-toothed range on the Indian frontier came a ragged band of men who for three months had fought the Japs on their own terms and come back alive. Led by small, unorthodox Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate,* they had shown on a small scale that the ordinary British and Indian soldier can learn jungle fighting...
...difficult return journey some men went without food for long stretches. They ate bamboo shoots, mule steaks cut from their pack animals, elephant meat, boiled python, boiled grass. When they returned to the Indian frontier they were ravenous. Brigadier Wingate ate as much as his men, was asked by a solicitous general if he was not eating too heavily. Said he: "I find it quite impossible to overeat. During the march I read Xenophon and Plato's dialogues with Socrates. Now I find that moderation has become my guiding thought-wonderfully soothing...
Bulgarian Plots. Last week, London heard rumors that Turkey had declared war on: 1) Germany, 2) Bulgaria. All that happened was that the Turko-Bulgarian frontier was closed and the Turkish press suddenly began to denounce Bulgaria. The Turks suspect that Boris was trying to squirm out of his alliance with Hitler and butter up the Allies; the Bulgars fear that the Turks are preparing to grab off Thrace...