In Bombay last week "Butler's Buttercups" struggled desperately with the ghost of Subhas Chandra Bose. On the birthday of the onetime Congress party leader who had gone off to lead a Jap-sponsored Indian army and die in a Jap plane crash, thousands of Hindus jammed downtown streets shouting Bose's battle cry, Jai Hind, (Victory to India).
At Round Temple, dividing point between Hindu and Moslem sections of the city, tough, stocky Commissioner Harold Edwin Butler's Buttercups (blue-and-yelow uniformed police) tried to bar the way. When paraders squatted on the pavements, the law hurled tear gas. Up came the Hindus with...
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