Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is the Air Medal Correspondent Teddy White won for "the courage and bravery he demonstrated when he flew important and dangerous missions" with the men of China-Burma- India. Command and the felt patch Bernard Hoffman wore sewed to the back of his shirt when he went along on the first B-29 raid on Japan, to identify himself to Chinese guerrillas in case his plane was forced down...
...last week planes from Britain carried tons of top-priority ballot papers for distant war theaters, some (e.g., in Burma) to be dropped to combat troops by para chute. Because these far-flung soldier votes will be slow in returning, the election result will not be announced before July...
...first discussion between Britons and Burmese leaders since the recapture of Rangoon was held aboard a British warship last week. Subject: self-government for Burma. Whatever Burma's political future may be, there was one great success at the meeting-ice cream...
...Burmese delegates came aboard from a motor launch. With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent...
...Burmans sat like Buddhas and sucked at whacking long, silver-white cheroots while Sir Reginald spoke. He promised that Burma would have self-government as soon as possible. But before that happened, Burma must...