Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago famed Medical Missionary Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave entered Rangoon's red-and-cream brick high court to stand trial for treason. Last week a crowd gathered to hear the verdict. Dr. Seagrave was brought into court from a comfortable U.S. Embassy bungalow, where he was allowed to stay after he became ill in Rangoon's crowded, noisy jail...
...jail, Seagrave muttered: "Oh Lord, I simply cannot sleep there." Up to this time Seagrave had flatly refused to consider deportation, now he was heard to say: "I think I would almost rather take exile from Burma." All of the Baptist missionaries in Burma were in Rangoon for a meeting, but only one of them was in the courtroom to hear sentence passed on their former colleague, who has operated independently of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society since 1942. As he left the courtroom, Seagrave turned to his loyal friend, Rev. Walter D. Sutton, and asked for his prayers...
...brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave's refusal to make political distinctions...
...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was troubled by spiritual questions. In Rangoon, where he was paying a neighborly call on the Burmese government, a reporter asked Nehru about the contradiction between his Occidental education and his Hindu background, inquired whether he was not suffering from inner conflict. "Yes, I am suffering from inner conflict," replied the Pandit. "One who doesn't suffer from inner conflict is a lunatic...