Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attlee made it clear that he was not keen on the trip. It would add to Red China's prestige in countries like India and Burma, and besides, said Attlee, "I do not know what my wife will say. I'm too old to be flying about." Also going along: Party Secretary Phillips, Nye Bevan. "We were not informed or consulted," was the chilly Foreign Office reaction...
Like a high, thin curl of smoking incense, the chant arose from thousands of monks assembled near Rangoon, Burma. For 1600 hours it would go on, until all 14,804 pages of the sacred Buddhist texts, the Tipitakas,* had been chanted. Under the leadership of an 80-year-old holy man, Abhidhaja Revata, impassively seated on a golden dais, the sixth World Buddhist Council was under...
Marx or Buddha? The present council, which will last for two years, was called to codify some changes in the texts and to prepare them for propagation throughout a morally shaken Asia. The man behind the council is Burma's pleasant, scholarly Prime Minister U Nu, who has been doing his best to spark a religious resurgence in his country since it got its independence in 1948. A devout Buddhist, who rises to pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held...
...Sided Respite. Into the vacuum left by the collapse of the U.S.'s hastily laid plans stepped Britain's Anthony Eden. To the Communists' charge that Russia and China are the sole champions of Asian nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi...
...strongly anti-Communist Hong Kong, Formosa and Korea, there was concern that the U.S. was hobbled by its own allies in talking of a European-based Asian alliance or one including India, Indonesia or Burma. In their view, the U.S. should base Pacific defense on smaller but more enthusiastic allies: South Korea, Formosa, Thailand, the Philippines...