Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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's refusal to make political distinctions...
...Rangoon last week, ailing, 53-year-old Burma Surgeon Gordon S. Seagrave, dressed in a blue double-breasted suit, sat in the prisoner's dock. He listened attentively, as Assistant Attorney General U Chan Tun Aung droned through a three-count indictment, accused Seagrave of committing high treason by aiding and comforting the rebel Captain Naw Seng in his war against the government...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was troubled by spiritual questions. In Rangoon, where he was paying a neighborly call on the Burmese government, a reporter asked Nehru about the contradiction between his Occidental education and his Hindu background, inquired whether he was not suffering from inner conflict. "Yes, I am suffering from inner conflict," replied the Pandit. "One who doesn't suffer from inner conflict is a lunatic...
Last week LIFE Correspondent Elmer Lower cabled from Rangoon: "Experienced foreign observers here say that the Burmese government has improved its position more during the past year than either they or the Burmans believed possible. With the elimination of the Karens in Toungoo and the Communists in Prome (TIME, June 5), the government's campaign approaches being 75% successful...
While he prayed and his soldiers fought, loyal Burmans were combatting rebellion with a third weapon: humor. The Rangoon newspaper Burman recently printed a definition: "A Communist is a man who promises that you'll have no rent to pay and does his best to keep his promises by destroying everything you'd be willing to pay rent for." One rapidly disintegrating group of rebels is called the White Band PVO (People's Volunteer Organization). The surrendered PVO leader, Bo La Yaung, last week toured Rangoon flourishing a chit that read: "Bo La Yaung, having surrendered...