Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Driving up to Stoke D'Abernon, the 23-year-old Oxford graduate nervously fingered his blond, bristly mustache. With a good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
Examiners pinned a number on the front and back of each man's coat. On the general-information test, the Burma war veteran (who was No. 17) was asked: 1) Who was the Prime Minister of Iran at the beginning of the Azerbaijan dispute? 2) Who was the C.I.O.'s first boss? 3) Who founded the 19th Century science of criminology...
...said about Nigeria applied, in greater or less degree, to all colonial British Africa. The verdict was especially devastating in the light of the hopes that had been based on African development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...engage Ibrahim's men, Indian soldiers seasoned in the steaming jungles of Burma slogged up snowy mountainsides. Bombers took their missiles over Nanga Parbat, fifth highest mountain in the world. At the extreme east end of the front, at Ladak, a strange land where the people are Buddhists and feel more affinity to Tibet than Kashmir, an Indian division was flown in by planes that climbed 20,000 feet over the Himalayas...
...Burma, 42-year-old Socialist Premier Thakin Nu, who had translated How to Win Friends and Influence People into Burmese, was making new friends himself. He had already announced the expropriation of some British companies in Burma. Last week he called for abolition of capitalism, for the propagation of Marxism and friendship with Russia. Said Winston Churchill when he heard the news: Burma is "descending into a state of anarchy tempered by Communism." Later, assured that no outright Communists would be included in Burma's cabinet, the former "thakins" (masters) in London relaxed, but not much...