Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members, who have voluntarily enlisted. The British have been aware of Haganah and Palmach since the earliest days of their existence, have helped build their organization, trained their members, furnished them with materials and even utilized their power, for their own purposes. In 1936, Brigadier General Orde Wingate, of Burma fame, came to Palestine on Intelligence duty for the British Army. He organized raiders in Palestine. He trained Haganah men to defend British installations. In 1939, before the White Paper, stopping Jewish Immigration and land purchase, was issued, Wingate was relieved of his duty, and men who continued the training...
...betrays their passage. On this airfield have been glimpsed, for tantalizing moments, the sinews which move the mighty Soviet hand whose political fingers probe, by diplomacy or conspiracy, into every cranny of the world-the back alleys of Buenos Aires, the palaces of Paris, the bottle-towered temples of Burma...
...Burma this week had its third Royal Governor in two months. He was Major General Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee, tall, gaunt graduate of Sandhurst and an old Burma hand. But the new Governor would have to work miracles to bring order into the festering chaos...
...Burma was probably worse off than any country in southeast Asia. Rice, the main staple of Burmese diet, was scarce, chiefly owing to a shortage of draft animals and agricultural implements (in the rice paddies, many a Burmese farmer pulled his own makeshift plow). Nevertheless, the Government insisted on sending large amounts of Burmese rice to India. Farmers had no incentive to sow more, because the ceiling prices at which they can sell their rice were kept low by Government order, while the prices of consumer goods skyrocketed ($8 for a cheap cotton shirt). The promised $120 million British loan...
...beginning. It was a reward for Christian work during the misery of war. Somehow he survived 265 bombings unscratched while he helped refugees, conducted services, directed an ambulance corps. He found time also to work among American soldiers, became known to thousands of G.I.s as the "Bishop of the Burma Road...