Word: india
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...first place, the label-conscious U. S. had at first given the late Lord Lothian exactly the same tags; but he had turned out first-rate. Besides, Lord Halifax had been through everything-all the way from the practice of pious imperialism as India's Viceroy, to its desperate defense as Britain's wartime Foreign Secretary. Having bossed ambassadors, he would know how to be one. It was felt that those Puritan Americans would like Halifax's deeply religious nature. This devotion, which bred the conviction in him that Adolf Hitler is a creature of the devil...
...thick of things, to be made responsible to some young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together the two prayed. When they came out, the father said: "I think you really have to go, Edward." Edward said: "I think...
...British were last week busy offsetting Mussolini's claim to be "Protector of Islam." To England's Moslems the British Treasury, which is already subsidizing pilgrimages of the faithful from India to Mecca (TIME, Nov. 18), has given a tidy ?100,000 ($400,000) for a mosque, promised them a site in London for it. In Libya when a force of Australians holed up a body of Italians at the oasis of Jarabub, the R. A. F. knew better than to bomb it. Jarabub has several holy Moslem buildings and the British did not intend to injure...
...knew horseflesh were put in charge of tanks, and all the brilliant experimenters with mechanization were put out of the way-one was retired, another sent to command a second-class district in India, where there were no mechanized troops, another given an anti-aircraft division...
...Madrid and signed a commercial agreement that freed frozen Spanish credits in Britain and provided the basis for a revival of Anglo-Spanish trade. Opening transactions included the sending of 6.000 tons of manganese ore, urgently needed by the Spanish steel industry, and a cargo of jute from India. Spain contracted to send her entire export crop of bitter oranges and large quantities of sweet oranges to England, and was assured of an end to difficulties over the import of seed potatoes...