Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boudrean Escorts Indians to Flag...
Most of the confusion in Burma was caused by rival Marxists. Hari Goshal, carrying out the Calcutta plan, was busily at work with the so-called White Flag Communists. A group called Red Flag Communists worked separately from them. Closest to the government in outlook, but believing in cooperation with the Communists, was a group of veterans of the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized by former Premier U Aung San, assassinated last year. Another important group is the Karens, who are mostly Christian, and oppose the government, which they say is heavily Marxist...
Oddest attack of last month was reported from Thakin Nu's own home town of Moulmeingyun. A band of Red Flag Communists led by a fair-skinned, 25-year-old girl named Bo Moe Kyi (Officer Clear Sky) swept down at dawn and quietly took over from the police. In the presence of the town elders, Clear Sky removed 60,000 rupees from the government treasury, burned all legal records at the courthouse and emptied the jail...
...Marilyn gave out an interview in Boston. She said that he was desperately in love with her and would marry her if I would step aside. 'She waves her baby at him like George M. Cohan waves the American flag,' they quoted Marilyn. Now that was a smart line, but I never believed Marilyn thought it up herself...
...Ashamed." Meanwhile, in a Swedish ambulance driven by a lone U.S. marine, the flag-draped bodies of Count Bernadotte and Colonel Serot were taken from Jerusalem to Haifa. Israelis lined the streets in silence. "We are too ashamed to talk about it," said a Jerusalem cabdriver. In synagogues, rabbis denounced the murder. At Latrun, a detachment of Abdullah's Arab Legion presented arms as the ambulance passed. Beneath the dead man's folded hands rested his broad-brimmed Scout...