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...waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...
...fine points of trade, could not even speak Russian, and had to settle for whatever exchange goods they could get. Iron Curtain countries had plenty of cement to offer; cement, the delegates figured, would surely come in handy for Burma's projected construction program. So, without consulting Rangoon, they ordered a whopping 124,000 tons of cement from Russia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. In their enthusiasm they somehow forgot that 1) no major construction is going on in Burma now, 2) Burma produces 60% of her own cement, 3) there is not room for that much cement in Rangoon...
Some 50,000 tons have already arrived in the port, and ships are standing offshore with more, waiting for berths. Rangoon's ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...
With a delicacy rare in hard-fought elections, the ballyhoo men in the wagons that roved through Rangoon's streets all one night last week apologized humbly for disturbing the voters' sleep. But their loudspeakers kept on blaring just the same, extolling hour after hour the virtues of Premier U Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Next day, with the help of virtually every available automobile in town, the party workers were as busy as well-trained Tammany heelers getting out the vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief...
...second national election. Able Premier U Nu, whose party already controls 86% of the nation's 250-seat Chamber of Deputies, had once again won a handy victory over the Communist-dominated opposition, most of whose efforts had been concentrated in trying to win a single district in Rangoon. When even that seat appeared to be going to the Freedom League, election commissioners cautiously decided to delay announcing the victory until a mob of students, waiting with weapons in hand outside the city hall, had been dispersed...