Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years and five months as Prime Minister, Clement Attlee had not only given freedom to India, Burma, Ceylon (combined pop. 411 million), he had also given to Britain a new way of life. Some of Attlee's followers called it Socialism; some called it "fair shares for all"; some called it the welfare state. Winston Churchill last week scornfully snarled out another name for it: "Queuetopia." Spendthrift's End? Whatever it was, the regime of queues and 40% taxes and womb-to-tomb security had come to judgment. On Feb. 23, Britain's voters would decide...
Park, who covered Far Eastern affairs in his talk, gave the French sponsored government in Indo-China only an even chance of surviving against the Communists. A Communist overthrow in Indo-China might easily be followed by the setting up of similar regimes in Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. He viewed the Far East as the touchiest area facing our foreign policy and recommended long term economic aid such as experimental farms and demonstration factories...
Item: The ministers agreed to chip in ?7,500,000 to help wayward sister Burma, which had left the Commonwealth, get back on her feet...