Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just back from London, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, stoutly urged the Hindu, Moslem and other leaders and princes to accept Britain's plan to keep India united
Agreement to Disunite. Far away from the Jumna's banks, in the quiet atmosphere of London's No. 10 Downing St., a Briton who had striven desperately to save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...
Sterne had his first big show in Berlin, spent a year in a Greek monastery, moved on to India, Burma, Java, and finally Bali. He had never heard of Bali, went there only because he happend to miss the boat to Borneo. But Bali held Sterne for two years, and he can still remember much of it in detail simply by closing his eyes. At first Sterne felt no desire to paint there ("It was art"), but the paintings he brought back with him helped to make Bali a dreamer's byword across the U.S. He feels sure that...
...served last week for a group of robbers, murderers and miscellaneous bad-men by the People's Volunteer Organization of Meiktila, in middle Burma. The band, which prefers to be known as "rebels," surrendered recently to the authorities. Seventy of the bandits turned up for the party. But their leader, Bo Pe Hla, made his excuses: he was indisposed...
...reliable knowledge of tropical fish, the politics and personalities of Burma, Turkish newspapers and journalists, British children's games and books, "most Moslem customs," witchcraft in the U.S., water lilies and other aquatic plants, the Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...