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Tough Job. As Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must fight two wars: 1) the far-flung military and naval campaigns of World War II; 2) the vital economic battle at home to support 46,000,000 people while stoking the insatiable maw of Britain's military machine. In the fighting, the Empire seems to be doing reasonably well, considering its shortage of trained men and of material. The home front is different...
Delegates wrangled for an hour over the amendment, heard the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett say its effect would be "to fill the Red-baiting maw of Westbrook Pegler," finally tabled...
...course in bio-chemistry was optimistically listed in the course announcement as Biology 4. Like prosperity, Biology 4 remained just around the corner for three long years of tantalizing billing; then retired with a unique record of never having held a class, Meanwhile, sole entry in the bio-chemistry maw has been a half-hearted, half-course stop-gap called Chemistry 15. Next year, even it is to join the ghosts of limbo, and an absolutely bare cupboard faces the hungry bio-chem. concentrator seeking a dish to correlate his unbalanced diet of biology and chemistry...
Premier under the new Constitution has been Dr. Ba Maw, artful, unscrupulous, Anglophile barrister of Rangoon. Chief rival to Dr. Ba Maw has been U Saw, artful, unscrupulous, demagogic leader of the Myochit (Patriotic) Party, who finds anti-British slogans the most effective way of rallying opposition to Premier Ba Maw. Late last December U Saw organized a patriotic demonstration in Rangoon, surrounded the Government Secretariat with two thousand students and 600 well-fed, yellow-robed Phongyis (Buddhist priests). Armed with umbrellas, lunch baskets, water bottles and red flags and shouting "Burma for the Burmans" and "Patriotic Fury...
...wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma's Legislature last week concluded that Premier Ba Maw had failed to solve the prickly problem of Burma's Indian minority, passed a motion of noconfidence. Chosen to succeed Ba Maw and to restore peace between Burmans and Indians was a new Premier...