Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
When Sir Hubert, Burma's Governor, arrived in Rangoon a few months ago, he gave a reception in the palatial red brick Government House. During the Japanese occupation, Government House furniture, along with the habit of obedience to British rule, had disappeared. For the party, Sir Hubert's aides scouted up some furniture looted by the Japanese. The guests were fascinated by the decor. Burman leaders wandered about Sir Hubert's rooms pointing to chairs, tables, rugs, and saying: "That was mine before the war."* Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north...
...Flags. Prime Minister Clement Attlee offered Burma a choice between full independence and Dominion status, pointing out that the latter was not "independence minus" but "independence plus." The Burmans settled for an interim government much like India's. They won some concessions: 1) control of their own finances and troops; 2) an election in April for a Constituent Assembly...
Among the immediate hurdles facing the new Government was, of course, Communism. But Burma, which usually has to be a little different, has not one Communist party, but two. The Premier, young (32) Aung San, liked the idea of British troops staying awhile to help him control the Reds, some of whom could not even be controlled by Moscow. For the same reason he asked that the Legislative Council be nominated by the British, rather than elected; the British complied, although two of his five fellow delegates objected strenuously...
...died. "This is a very good omen," said the Burmans. "If somebody in Aung San's family had to leave us, it is better that his little one should go. It bodes long life for our noble leader, and success in his efforts to build a free Burma...