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...Brown College, McConnell went on to West Point and flying school, rose from shavetail to colonel in ten years. During World War II, he was assigned to the Southeast Asia Air Command under Admiral Louis Mountbatten, became Chief of Staff of the Air Force Training Command in the China-Burma-India theater, after the war was senior U.S. air adviser to the Nationalist Chinese government...
...Rangoon, Burma...
...KHAUNG Myingyan, Burma...
...confidence and dissolved Parliament, requiring new elections that are sure to be tumultuous. In Japan, Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect claiming converts at the rate of 100,000 families a month, has launched its own political party, which, says its chairman, "naturally aims at ruling the nation." In Burma, an attempt to set up a Buddhist thearchy has led to chaos and left-wing military dictatorship...
...Twofold Path. When the modern world broke into Asia during the 19th century, Buddhism resisted. In the Boxer Rebellion, Buddhist deities were relied on for help against the Christian bullets. In Indo-China, Burma and elsewhere, Buddhism became identified with the nationalist struggle against colonial rule...