Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rice & Rubies. Prewar Burma was the world's largest exporter of rice, teak, rubies and jade. Its oil wells supplied its own needs and most of India's. The Mawgmi mine was the world's chief single source of tungsten...
...them, but Yamashita's lawyers wangled an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A majority of the high justices in Washington, without passing on the fairness of Yamashita's trial, refused to accept jurisdiction. They declared it was a matter for MacArthur to review. SCAP's chief promptly hailed Yamashita's conviction as "beyond challenge," and sentence was executed...
...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
After World War II Zaisser returned to Germany, became Minister of the Interior in Saxony. Last August he received a new title: Chef der Abteilung für Schulung bei der deutschen Verwaltung des Inneren (Chief of the Division for Training Connected with the German Administration of the Interior). The title was a fancy cover for his real job, head of the Bereitschaften-cadre army...
Quotes from the Left. Burma's Communists are the chief beneficiaries of this Karen-Burmese hatred. Burma probably has less than 10,000 convinced Communists (split into two major groups), but it has millions of ardent leftists. Prime Minister Thakin Nu himself was long a disciple of Marx, and he depends for his chief parliamentary support on the Socialists, who are militantly nationalist and anticapitalist...