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...British heritage, lime juice,* was much in evidence last week when Burmans held their first election under their own provisional government. At each of Rangoon's polling booths stood a bottle of the juice, put there because of rumors that disorderly elements intended to throw sulphuric acid in the ballot boxes. The Burmans figured that the famed antiscorbutic was also the best anti-sulphuric...
TIME has been trying to get a clear view of the political situation in Burma. A local correspondent in Rangoon last week rang the bell* with the following summary of the situation...
...main cellblock of Rangoon's big central jail rang to a chorus of angry chants: "Rebellion, Rebellion; Rise, Rise. Jail, Jail; Open, Open!" The Prisoners' Union - latest manifestation of a contagious Burman fever for organizing - was holding a protest meeting...
Unable to back up their protests by walking out, as had inmates of Rangoon's leper colony (TIME, Dec. 9), the prisoners joined three jailed women Communists in a hunger strike...
There were many Communists in Burma's jails, but Rangoon's police itched to get their fingers on one more. Hefty Thakin Soe had cost them face. Arrested, he slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps...