Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma is full of elephants that never forget. Back in the '20s and '30s, when J. H. ("Elephant Bill") Williams was working as elephant manager for the Bombay Burma Trading Corp., he traveled from camp to camp, inspecting the jumbos whose job was pushing & pulling four-ton teak logs down from the hills...
After the Thunder. Cornwall-bred Williams got his first experience with outsize animals when he served with the British Camel Corps in World War I. After the war he went to Burma and graduated to elephants. Elephant Bill is the modest, rambling story of what he learned about the beasts during the next 25 years...
Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer, 60, is running the Far East Air Force in smooth cooperation with the Army. Top-ranking air officer in the China-Burma-India Theater during the last war, West Pointer "Strat" directed the 1944 Tenth Air Force offensive against the Japanese in Burma. At the same time he organized an airlift which supplied Allied ground troops in Burma with an average of 2,000 tons of food and equipment a day even during the monsoon season.. Calm and considerate, West Pointer Stratemeyer has something of the air of a jolly college professor, manages...
...Asia, leaders' words rang with a new sense of clear purpose. The most interesting reaction came from India. Its newspapers freely predicted that India's U.N. delegate would not vote for the U.S. resolution on Korea. Then Pandit Nehru came home from a trip to Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. For months he had been preaching "neutrality" in the struggle between Communism and the West. What he had seen in other lands, plus the U.S. action on Korea, changed his mind. He amazed his countrymen and the world by lining India up on the side...
...time and lives. But what if the Kremlin's masterminds chose to set other small fires around Communism's vast periphery? Without involving themselves in declared war, they could blockade Berlin or Vienna, send Kurds into Turkey or Iran, launch Chinese Communist armies into Indo-China or Burma...