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Many Indies. The key to the troubles of the rest of the Empire is to be found in India and Burma, areas now in transition between colonial status and self-government. Until 1946, it was fashionable to speak of India's internal rivalries as if they were unique. In complexity, India's problems may still hold the palm (see FOREIGN NEWS), but recent months have brought the appalling realization that Britain faces in most colonies counterparts of the Indian communal strife. Whenever British rule is firmly consolidated and seemingly permanent, political conflict between native groups is nonexistent...
...BURMA Solidarity
Until the authorities acted, the lepers could afford to wait. In Burma, social outcasts help each other. The lepers were being fed with rice donated by cemetery workers, who occupy the lowest rank in Burmese society...
...Australia, Indo-China, India, Burma and Sinkiang during the hottest times of the war. He flew so many combat missions with the Fourteenth Air Force (and was awarded the Air Medal) that the editors at home finally ordered him to stop risking his life. He visited Communist headquarters at Yenan. He did not leave China for good until he had flown to see the surrender at Tokyo...
...Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...