Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, British businessmen in Bur ma thought they would stay on. Britain still holds large investments in Burmese commerce and industry, and most of Burma's exports go to Empire countries. Burma, squeezed between two Asiatic giants (India and China), has permitted Britain to maintain military missions...
...what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...
...Burma's celebrators last week had a sharp reminder of their continuing time of troubles. On public display, in glass coffins, lay the embalmed bodies of Aung San, Burma's youthful "strong man" and six cabinet colleagues, who had been murdered (TIME, July...
...special court passed the death sentence on U Saw, Burma's pro-Japanese nationalist leader, and eight accomplices, for plotting Aung San's murder...
...Thakin Nu, Premier of newly independent Burma, he sent a good-will copy of Back to Methuselah, confided that he considered it his masterpiece...