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...Burmese delegates came aboard from a motor launch. With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent...
...Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with a lion cub, Sickles gave a litter...
...Grand Admiral complained bitterly when told that he could take only one piece of luggage. He had packed twelve. Later he was found to have worn six suits of silk underwear...
Along the Isonzo, every cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...