Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exports will be less than 1,000,000. Next year the government hopes to have 730,000 tons for export, but many believe the figure will be lower. This means that millions will go hungry in other parts of Asia, and that Burma will be without its major source of income for the imports it needs. "Burma," said National Bank head U San Lin, "may be bankrupt next year...
...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
...Major General Russel B. Reynolds, Major General Leo Donovan, Major General James A. Lester, Brigadier General Egbert F. Bullene, Brigadier General Morris C. Handwerk...
Factories for Russia. Industrial production targets in a "two-year plan" for Dairen published last January ranged from 5 to 30% of Dairen's prewar output. All of the city's major factories have been either taken over outright by the Soviets or organized into a system of "Sino-Soviet Trusts...
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...