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Independence came last week to Burma and its 15 million people...
Thousands of Burmans caroused amiably along Rangoon's steamy, tropical waterfront. Some still recalled the day in 1885 when Burma's last king, brash Thibaw, sailed into exile and the British took over. Now, British rule...
Atop gloomy Government House, where the Union Jack had flown for 62 years, the new red-white-&-blue Burmese flag fluttered. Sir Hubert Rance, Britain's last governor of Burma, emerged from the building, drove to the pier. He boarded the hulking British cruiser H.M.S. Birmingham and, like Thibaw, sailed from Burma's shores...
Four members of the National Student Association will travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia or Rangoon, Burma, this summer to determine whether or not the NSA affiliates with the International Union of Students...
...world's great rice exporters - Burma, Siam, Indo-China - have never recovered from their wartime agricultural breakdown. This crop-year they will be able to export less than one-third the normal prewar figure. No matter how well it is distributed, this food balance sheet adds up to acute shortage. Two countries, Argentina and the U.S., both more prosperous than they were before the war, might alleviate the crisis, Argentina by charging less, the U.S. by eating less...