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...fight to make the world safe for such tyranny as the British practice in Palestine-they send people to rot in concentration camps without trial or even charge, confiscate, search and loot without process of law. Americans once revolted for less...
Rioting Moslems went after Hindus with guns, knives and clubs, looted shops, stoned newspaper offices, set fire to Calcutta's British business district. Hindus retaliated by firing Moslem mosques and miles of Moslem slums. Thousands of homeless families roamed the city in search of safety and food (most markets had been pilfered or closed). Police blotters were filled with stories of women raped, mutilated and burned alive. Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions. Cried Hindu Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (who is trying to form an interim government despite the Moslems...
...feature was Kitty Foyle, knov/n in Berlin as Fräulein Kitty. Couples strolled toward the Kronen Lichtspiele in search of a few laughs, an occasional tear, and the chance to forget Germany. They did not find what they were looking for. U.S. Information Control was trying a Hollywood sneak preview on Germans. The substitute picture was Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
...British, for the moment, were more interested in facts than in symbols; and one cogent fact was that Jewish immigration was running at 10,000 a month as against a quota of 1,500. Determined to stop this, the British sent powerful naval and air forces to stop and search any ships, under any flag, suspected of carrying illegal immigrants.* London announced that intercepted Jewish refugees would be held on Cyprus, where a mile-square camp, doubly enclosed by barbed wire, has been set up near Famagusta...
...East Kootenays, Slocan and other silver-bearing areas of British Columbia, some 500 old sourdoughs and hopeful young war veterans chipped away last week in search of new lodes. Virgin claims were staked out, old claims rechecked. In Silverton, Sandon and many another mine town, shutters came down and hopes went...