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...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
...they intervened, their program of aggression and expansion in Asia had gained nothing. They failed to follow up their feint in Tibet; they stood idly by while Ho Chi Minh's Communists in Indo-China and the Communist-led Huks in the Philippines got their ears pinned back; Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Formosa and Japan are as intact as they were last November...
Some of the mainland guerrilla leaders are known to old China hands of the U.S. Guerrilla chief in Inner Mongolia is General Ou Yu-san, former cavalry commander under ex-Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, who went over to the Reds. In Yunan, along the Burma border, the guerrilla boss is General Li Mi, who commanded the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group at the hard-fought battle of Suchow in November...
...arena for field events, a main grass arena for football, hockey and basketball, a swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 5,000. There last week, teams from eleven Asian countries competed in the first Asiad, a program of events patterned after the world Olympics. The countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Siam.* Stated purpose of the Asiad: "Maintaining world peace." Another purpose: promoting the Asians-are-different line of India's Nehru and other Asian leaders...
...went traveling, and loved the friendly gas station men, and the clean, convenient motels (they were a new idea in 1938), and the handy lunch counters. I even enjoyed listening to the radio commercials and watching the Burma-Shave advertisements go by--at first...