Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article contains a remark ["the man knows nothing about Buddhism"] allegedly made by Mr. Ben-Gurion on the occasion of the visit to Israel of U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma...
...Prime Minister has asked me to point out that he has never given utterance to any such words or ideas as those attributed to him; he has the deepest respect and admiration for the Prime Minister of Burma, both as a great leader of his nation and as a man of profound religious conviction...
...warm and hearty as the welcome of a friendly family toward a beloved brother," was the way tubby Nikita Khrushchev described the welcome accorded to him and his fellow-traveler Nikolai Bulganin on their recent visit to Burma. It was an impulsive way to describe the politeness with which the Burmese had borne the visit of the bad-mannered pair, who had used their hosts' most sacred shrines as soapboxes from which to hurl insults at Britain. But the Burmese were quick to make equally polite restitution...
...Russians were scarcely gone from Burmese soil when an invitation went flying from Rangoon to London urging Britain's last Governor General in Burma, Sir Hubert Ranee, to come and spend a happy two-week vacation with his former subjects. When he got to Burma, Sir Hubert was awarded the title Agga Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh...
...private passion is reading philosophy-Spinoza, the Greeks, the Bible, the ancient Buddhist writings. It is part of his search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...