Mahatma Gandhi shot in '48
We now have nationalised British Rail
And later this same year the British state
Also has its National Health Service, pale
But still alive 64 years on. Will
It last much longer? Ceylon, free nation
Czechoslovakia not, Communists steal
Its freedom. Singapore holds elections
Televised Ninth Symphony, Beethoven
In Palestine, end of British Mandate
Then war between the Arabs and Israel
Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Transjordan
And Palestinians all try to unite
To crush the fledgling country, make it fail
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