Word: rangoons
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...Russians were scarcely gone from Burmese soil when an invitation went flying from Rangoon to London urging Britain's last Governor General in Burma, Sir Hubert Ranee, to come and spend a happy two-week vacation with his former subjects. When he got to Burma, Sir Hubert was awarded the title Agga Maha Thray Sithu, meaning Very High Big Honorable Officer of the King. Similarly honored was another servant of Empire: Britain's onetime Laborite Colonial Undersecretary, Lord Ogmore. And just to show who was who's beloved brother, the Burmese gave the Duke of Edinburgh...
...political crowd in Rangoon, he talked of a possible new war, plotted, of course, by the Western powers-"They are training the West German army for use against the Soviet Union." To an enthusiastic assemblage of Rangoon University students, he propagated the Communist faith-"The days of capitalism in the world are approaching their...
...glass facts of history. Some he carefully mortared into the structure of Communism's new policy in Asia. All in all, he must have accounted it a good week's work. The Burmans had not displayed the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Indians, but when the pair left Rangoon to return to India, some university girls wept at the airport, while cheering Burmese boys raised clenched fists in salute...
...Russian commitment to build and equip a technical institute in Rangoon...
...oldest British church," he sneered, eying the Burmese shrine, "is only 1,000 years old, yet the British call you barbarians." Then, recalling the recent unpleasantness about Moscow Chief Architect Vlasov, who was blasted by his government while visiting the U.S., he singled out another Russian architect in Rangoon to cry, "Look out, comrade, I see you are standing with American and French reporters. They may try to persuade you to stay with the West as the stupid Americans and stupid Frenchmen tried to do with Architect Vlasov...