Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, you went on to Burma, where, I understand, you used some very bad language which didn't help you much, considering the season and all. But sure enough, old fairy godfather could be counted...
...Then, in Burma, as newsmen pressed close for photographs and interviews with Khrushchev, he got really mad. Who was the Third Man? He was General Ivan Alexandrovich Serov, Cabinet-ranking boss of Soviet secret police...
...economic agreement under which Russia will help Burma build factories, begin irrigation projects and undertake farm development in return for long-term payments in Burmese rice. The U.S., which has a rice surplus of its own, has not been able to get together with Burma on any such deal...
Incident in Mandalay. Last week in Burma, Serov's nerves seemed to be getting the better of him. London Observer Correspondent Philip Deane photographed a Burmese soldier demonstrating a mine detector at Mandalay airport, just before the arrival of Khrushchev and Bulganin. A 6-ft. MVD plainclothesman rushed the Burmese soldier to try to stop the picture. The incident, recorded on TV film, made Serov blaze with anger. "Who took that lying photograph?" he demanded later. When other Western newsmen refused to tell him, he got madder. "In Russia," he said, "a man who took that picture would...
...profoundly and permanently changed. In six years as postwar Premier, Attlee installed Britain's welfare state and nationalized its basic industries. He, more than any other man, dismantled the British Empire and reforged it as a Commonwealth of equals. It was his personal decisions that gave India, Burma and Ceylon their freedom, and created the nation of Pakistan. Said Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hamidul Huq Choudhury: "His name will be remembered as long as the independence of this subcontinent is remembered...