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...Burma government last week seemed to be looking for a graceful way to drop a hot potato, i.e., its prosecution for "high treason" of famed Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave (TIME...
...government had charged Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave with high treason, but government witnesses at his trial last week had little or nothing to say about treason, concentrated instead on other accusations against Seagrave, to wit, discourtesy, fornication and slander...
...Pleasant apparently had only hearsay to support this charge. She said that Seagrave had avoided her after she rejected his advances. Defense witnesses for the ailing, 53-year-old physician firmly denied that Seagrave had ever molested his nurses. They further testified that he had been friendly towards Burma's government and army...
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...maintained that the two great successes of western statesmanship in dealing with Asia's desire for freedom have been (1) America's policy in fixing an advance date for Philippine independence and (2) Britain's policy for India, Pakistan, and Burma...