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...Communists were not the only ones who could wage successful rebellion in Asia. Last week Karen tribesmen, mostly Baptist, held much of Burma's richest land. They had taken Mandalay, and were in control of the Irrawaddy valley; their guns ringed the capital, Rangoon. Two months ago whole regiments of Karens rose in open rebellion against the government. The tough hill tribesmen, led by a handsome ex-Rangoon lawyer, Saw Ba U Gyi, had grown tired of waiting for the infant Burma Union to grant their demand for a separate state. They planned their attack for a propitious time...
...Communists; 3) the White Flag (Stalinist) Communists; and 4) the White Band (People's Volunteer Organization), followers of assassinated Premier Aung San (TIME, July 28, 1947). Recently the P.V.O. has shown signs that it was willing to cooperate with the government. Government officials show up regularly at the Rangoon Turf Club to instill public confidence, badly shaken by the sound of gunfire from the Insein front ten miles away. Last week racegoers gossiped hopefully of the current visit of P.V.O. General Bo La Yaung (his name means "Officer Moonshine") to the government's army chief...
Karen control of the Irrawaddy had cut off rice shipments from Rangoon.
The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan
($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of
chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British
Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents
...learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive in Rangoon to be baptized, the Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light...
...reasons unknown to me, the management of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, our first stop, put us up in the bridal suite ($25 a day U.S.), and the airport customs inspector gave me a quick frisk-for guns or opium, no doubt. At Rangoon, where we landed in monsoon weather, I was met at the airport by a little brown man wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green...