TIME has been trying to get a clear view of the political situation in Burma. A local correspondent in Rangoon last week rang the bell* with the following summary of the situation:"Private ...

“By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea/There’s a Burma girl a-settin,’ and I know she thinks o’ me.,” go the opening ... the other options being a rickety train ride or ...

"By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea/There's a Burma girl a-settin,' and I know she thinks o' me.," go the opening lines of "Mandalay," verses imbued with nostalgia for the wind ...

Burma's story has not always been quite as unhappy as recent history suggests. When in 1957 Frank Sinatra recorded "On the Road to Mandalay", his version of Rudyard Kipling's popular poem, the old ...

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