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...Honorable U Saw had not come as a tourist. He had flown to London four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of London's cold. Last fortnight he saw Prime Minister Churchill, for whom he had brought a box of Burma's Kipling-famed cheroots...
When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...
More cinema stars than had ever turned out for any public occasion showed themselves at Los Angeles' "Moon Festival" for United China Relief, but it was silken-banged Anna May Wong who rode in the parade with Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Supporting cast of more than 100 in the charity festival included Madeleine Carroll, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney. Result: for China's sufferers, roughly...
...famous silken tone ... his justly remunerated mastery of the musical marshmallow, were like so many cushions of damask and down to the musical ear.... It was admirable and fine and swell and O.K. and occasionally very, very beautiful. The guy can fiddle. . . . Four-starred superluxury hotels are a legitimate commerce. The fact remains, however, that there is about their machine-tooled finish and empty elegance something more than just a trifle vulgar...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...