Word: burma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Having covered my share of wars, insurrections, uprisings, etc., I was prepared for a certain amount of trouble en route. But the Burma rebellion now in progress broke out after we had left, and the minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before...
...weakening of the Commonwealth, which the U.S. would once have welcomed, was now a matter of grave U.S. concern. Who, for example, was now responsible for defense and order in the key strategic areas around the shores of the Indian Ocean? Burma had stepped from the Empire into chaos. Other lands might go the same way. Little to stop them was apparent last week in London...
...airmen have considered this possibility since the China Hump operation and the airborne Burma jungle campaign. Perhaps Russian strategists, who have consistently underestimated air power, are beginning to get the point...
...most realistic view of the Burmese situation was expressed by former Japanese Puppet Premier Ba Maw (Ph.D., Cambridge). Said he, in his best Cambridge drawl: "Just because America and Britain make their spiritual home in the middle of the road is no reason to expect Burma to stay there. The Japanese spirit completely conquered these people. It's the man with the gun who will win out here...
...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...