Reading Interesting Old News

BIRTH OF A NEW BURMA
January 5, 1948, Monday
The world this week welcomed a new nation into the great global family. Free Burma has broken completely away from the bonds of the British Empire. But unlike our own secession, in 1776, the break was achieved by peaceful negotiation instead of war. Yet by yielding Britain does not lose all in Burma.
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100,000 AT FUNERAL OF 9 SLAIN BURMESE
April 12, 1948, Monday
RANGOON, Burma, April 11 (AP) -- More than 100,000 persons bowed in homage today before the flag-draped coffins of Gen. U Aung San and eight other Burmese Government leaders who were slain last July. Most of them had been lying in state for nine months in Jubilee Hall.
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JEWISH COLONIES MAN 'BURMA ROAD';
New Settlements Dot Wider Jerusalem Corridor -- One Is Named for Morgenthau
October 28, 1948, Thursday
MORGENTHAU, Palestine, Oct. 27 -- Morgenthau is not yet on the map but its Hebrew equivalent soon will be. It is another Jewish settlement, founded today just inside the "Burma Road" corridor that the Israelis carved through Arab territory from Israel proper to Jerusalem.
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Burma, U. S. in Education Pact
December 23, 1947, Tuesday
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
December 15, 1851, Wednesday
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