Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irresolution that had paralyzed U.S. policy in the Far East fell away, the United Nations caught new spirit, too. On U.S. urging, the Assembly voted 47 to 0 to impose an embargo on war materials to Mao's China. No nation opposed it. Even India, Burma and Indonesia, who were among the eight who abstained, on the misty notion that it might spoil chances for peace, announced that they would support the embargo in practice. The five nations of the Soviet bloc refused to participate...
...beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure 47 to 0. The five Soviet bloc members refused to take part in the vote; eight other nations (Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria) abstained but indicated they would abide by the majority decision...
...fronts. At war's peak, we were printing some 834,000 overseas copies at 19 places for distribution to 180 countries and possessions. Among the 19: Bogotá, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Teheran and Sydney. Where transport problems were worst, as in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, Burma and the Pacific, we sent out pocket-sized "Pony" editions. Smallest of all was the Navy V-Mail Edition (4¼ in. by 5¼ in.). At war's end, all these editions were consolidated into the present four international editions now serving 1,419,000 readers outside...
...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
Stringer On Pe reports to TIME edi tors on conditions in his area and aids regular correspondents when they arrive on story assignments. He is a graduate of the University of Rangoon, later taught there. After hold ing several top edi torial spots, he has become chief editor of Burma Press Syn dicate. His wife, Nu Yin, is a poetess and short-story writer...