Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This took him back to the South Pacific and on to Burma (where his back was broken in a landing accident), then Omaha Beach and, at war's end, Okinawa...
While a herd of spotted mouse deer grazed under the banyan trees nearby, five men who speak for nearly a fourth of the people in the world gathered inside an old palace in the Indonesian resort town of Bogor last week. The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia-the so-called Colombo Powers-came together to plan history's first political conference of the nations of Africa and Asia. Questions to be settled were: where, when, why and whom to invite...
...ticklish question of invitations was saved until almost the end. Burma's Premier U Nu suggested that Israel be included, but Pakistan's Mohammed AH objected on behalf of the Moslem states, and Israel was excluded. The white-supremacy government of South Africa was not even discussed. ("We can't go there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers...
...Burma's U Nu made a final round of speeches in Communist China, and headed home to be in Rangoon in time to play host for Tito's state visit to Burma...
Monastic Incantations. Less flashy but perhaps more significant than Tito's arrival in India was U Nu's departure from Red China. The gentle-tongued but hard-minded Burmese Premier had spent 16 days subtly drawing distinctions about Burma's noninvolvement in the cold war. He was generous in his praise of what he had been shown, but not as a product for export: "There is a Burmese saying, 'Every monastery has its own peculiar incantation, and every village has its own favorite song...