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...have got to stand and fight. No two ways about that. If we pull out of Korea without being pushed out, then whatever prestige we had is gone. The French will collapse in Indo-China. India and Burma will go under. The French and the Germans will fold their hands in Western Europe...
...Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
Seagrave had originally been held under Burma's catchall Public Order Preservation Act. The complaint had later been changed to high treason to prevent him from winning temporary freedom under habeas corpus. His health had worsened in jail, and he had been moved to a comfortable private home under guard. When TIME Correspondent Jim Burke interviewed him last week, Seagrave had almost regained his normal health and spirits, but he was pale and looked all of his 53 years. His voice had stopped trembling, but his hands were stained from chain-smoking...
Most serious charge against Seagrave was that a rebel leader named Naw Seng had used his hospital compound, in the hill country near the Burma-China border, as a military headquarters during a brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave...
...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...