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Political Switch. The Burman National Army was organized and trained by the Japanese to fight against the British. Two months ago, noting the change in the tide of war, the B.N.A. changed sides. In a Rangoon broadcast, the B.N.A.'s chief of staff, Colonel Ne Win, admitted frankly: "We believed ... we could not successfully struggle against the British and achieve independence." But Japanese promises of independence turned out to be merely "a declaration...
Unfrocked. In Rangoon, many Bud dhist monks have been forced to become laymen because of the scarcity and high prices of bowls, umbrellas, slippers and yellow robes...
Then, a fortnight ago, at Long Beach, Calif., she got numbing news - her first husband had been found alive and well in a Rangoon hospital...
...Rangoon-in Burmese its name means "the end of the war"*-represented the virtual end of the Burma campaign and a good beginning toward greater victories...
...Rangoon is a corruption of Yan Kon; it was so named by a conquering Burmese king...