India

Mirage and Reality

But one devil had been driven out by another — possibly a more decent devil, but
a devil nevertheless. The saviours made themselves at home, and although
Nehru, following mediation in the United Nations, undertook to hold a plebiscite,
he subsequently shirked the implementation of his promise with one lame excuse
after another. " We are an occupied country," Mahmud declared sulkily. " The
place is swarming with police informers, and anyone speaking out against the
Indians is ...