Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harper Sibley, after a big-game hunting trip in Africa, joined Mrs. Sibley for the International Missionary Conference in Jerusalem, to which both were Episcopal delegates. In 1931 they traveled in India, Burma, China and Japan as Episcopal members of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, Mr. Sibley an observer of agricultural conditions. Mrs. Sibley studying the lives of Oriental women. One incident of their trip was brought up for discussion last week by The Living Church (high-church weekly). Mrs. Sibley had attended the All-India Women's Conference and gone with 400 delegates on a picnic...
...generations and giving him a scientific education was their idea of lifting him above his ancestral trade without removing him from it. Professor Cadman's first connection with oil was while doing research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development of a counter terror to poison gas. The War too gave him his knighthood and his first personal contact with U. S. oilmen...
...James's Palace. On the basis of the Second Conference's agreements & disagreements, the British Government tried subsequently to impose on India a settlement, certain features of which Mahatma Gandhi successfully resisted by his hunger strike (TIME, Oct. 3). Of one thing only the British felt certain: Burma, the eastern province of India, was to receive by her people's wish and by the Round Table's consent a separate status and a separate constitution from Federal India...
...previously ignored adherents loudly proclaimed that "Burma, if separated, would have to pay higher taxes, would be subject to white religious persecution and would become a white man's paradise and the home of the British unemployed...
Rebuffed by Dr. Maw, the Governor turned to two other Burmese leaders, U. Ba Pe and U Chit Hia, but both declined the role of puppet premier. In London the British Government saved its face temporarily by ignoring the question of Burma, urging the Conference to talk about India, particularly about the renowned inability of India's Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs to agree upon a system for their "communal representation" in the future Indian Parliament under the future Indian Constitution...