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While Burma's devout Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
Were the two crashes at the same place merely a tragic coincidence? Paris newspapers did not think so, darkly hinted at sabotage. They pointed out that the first plane carried Henri Maux, French government official returning to Paris from strife-torn Indo-China with important documents which he had prepared for an interstate conference between Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Scheduled for June 26, the conference had to be postponed as a result of Maux's death. Also on the first plane: Raymond Rivet of the French Ministry of Finance. Rivet carried with him a full report on drug...
Indo-China, in brief, has become a dangerous liability for France-nor does any realistic Frenchman think it can ever again be an asset. Why, therefore, spend more blood and treasure in thankless jungle strife? Why not pull...
Golden was surprised and pleased by the visit, a strangely unorthodox one in a period of bitter industrial strife. He advised the two to dope out a way of enlisting worker cooperation to keep the business going. So Scanlon sat down with the management and worked out the first edition of his productivity plan. Under it, the workers were encouraged to suggest ways of increasing productivity, and were rewarded by bonuses for any such increase. The men in the plat thus became participating members in the enterprise, with a stake in the company's success and responsibility for its success...
...bring the social evils of the day before the people. They wrote their messages into some of the best plays the American theater has seen. From 1935 to 1937, plays like "Bury the Dead," "Waiting for Lefty," "Dead End," and "Winterset" dealt with the problems of war, labor strife, and crime. The evils existing under our capitalist economy were by far the most popular targets...