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Almost as cantankerous as Mohamed Ali Jinnah was Mohandas K. Gandhi. When he reached Simla, Gandhi was exhausted. Huge crowds had surrounded his third-class railway coach at almost every stop from Bombay. Then he was closeted for nearly two hours with Lord Wavell...
...week's end the delegates set out in their respective ways on the road to Simla: Congress President Azad by air; League President Jinnah in a first-class, air-conditioned, coach; Mohandas K. Ghandi in a third-class railway compartment...
Spare the Rods. In Salem, Mass., a young mother asked to check her sleeping baby and carriage in a railway baggage car, confided, "I hate to spoil him so young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
...crowd gathered. Crippled Peter Back, the local Nazi leader, rode up on his motor bike. When the flyer reached the ground, Back shot him in the head, twice. Back was shouting "Shoot him! Beat him to death!" The flyer was still alive when blond, one-armed Peter Kohn, a railway worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman...
...studied China's beaten, war-weary, underfed, ill-armed, wretchedly conscripted army of 300 divisions which had to be whipped into shape. It was backed by a blockaded, withered economy producing some 10,000 tons of steel a year, supported by a transport system lacking a single effective railway, and equipped with less than 5,000 obsolescent trucks. It held a front almost 1,500 miles long. Its weapons were an international hodgepodge. But the invincible fact was that somehow this massive army existed, and somehow it fought...