Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
...land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace the vast subcontinent of India...
...While Burma's devout Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
This week Thakin Nu's government announced that it had arrested and imprisoned famed Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave on suspicion of aiding Burmese rebels. For a quarter-century the medical missionary, born of American parents in Burma, educated at Johns Hopkins, had fought a one-man war against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife...
Died. Saw Ba U Gyi, 46, leader of Burma's Karen rebels; trapped and shot by government soldiers; in a Burmese village near the Siam border (see WAR IN ASIA...