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...Pyinmana, not 450 miles from Dienbienphu, the Burmese government last week started its long-promised land reform. About 21,000 acres were parceled out among some 4,500 land-hungry peasants. Unlike Communist-style land reform, the landlords got fair compensation. In the next nine years Premier U Nu hopes to distribute 10 million acres, give perhaps 2,000,000 Burmese a stake of their own against Communism...
...Geren, Tun Shein and I. with Ko Nyunt and a Chinese college boy. Low Wang, and twelve nurses started off for Pyinmana. We got to Case's [Baptist Missionary Bray ton C. Case, founder of an agricultural school at Pyinmana] place while he was away late at night. The Friends' Ambulance Unit arrived almost immediately and while they went off for casualties we set up. They got back after we had managed to get two hours' sleep and from then on we worked steadily, with only two hours' rest, for 36 hours. Case moved...
...Tall, angular Brayton C. Case has stuck to his post at the repeatedly bombed agricultural school at Pyinmana near Toun-goo, despite the departure of all civil authority. He is marshaling food supplies for the Chinese armies, sending them truckload after truckload of cabbages, pigs, everything else he can lay his hands on. "If I ran off," he said, "there would be no one around to round up food for these Chinese...
...Grange, Ill.; Martin E. Flipse 2M, of Douglaston, L.I., N.Y.; Winsor C. Schmidt 2M, of Rye, N.Y.; Louis E. Ward 3M, of Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Allan L. Friedlich Jr. 3M, of New York, N.Y.; Glen R. Leymaster 4M, of Aurora, Neb.; Clarke T. Case 4M, of Pyinmana, Burma; and Laurence G. Wesson Jr. 4M, of Boston, Mass...
...Pyinmana Agricultural School in Burma. "A warm Christian spirit permeates all activities...
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