Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be 32. The anti-aircraft Territorials will be upped to 100,000 men and 10,000 will be on coast defense duty. Together with 150,000 men in the Navy and 118,000 in the Air Force, not to mention the 60,000 British troops in India and Burma, Britain's trained fighting men will be well nigh 1,200,000-quite a respectable figure for a non-conscript country...
...plan provides that the British would pay their debt in tin from South Africa, chromium from Rhodesia, tungsten and antimony from China and British Burma, and other materials. They would be kept in a government stock pile on reserve for emergency...
...effective way of rallying opposition to Premier Ba Maw. Late last December U Saw organized a patriotic demonstration in Rangoon, surrounded the Government Secretariat with two thousand students and 600 well-fed, yellow-robed Phongyis (Buddhist priests). Armed with umbrellas, lunch baskets, water bottles and red flags and shouting "Burma for the Burmans" and "Patriotic Fury," the mob took and then held the building against Government clerks, who had been out to lunch. Ba Maw's mounted police charged the crowd, injured 200, carried Leader U Saw off to jail. With his chief rival safely tucked away, the Premier...
...riots in Burma are of two kinds, arising from the fact that Burmans hate Indians as much as Englishmen. Fortnight ago native Buddhists put on a real riot against Hindu immigrants, and you could hear police sticks chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay. Twenty-four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma...
...Paris Exposition of 1937 was a large map of Austria painted on the walls of the Austrian pavilion. The nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world...