Burma
Sir, —Simon Winchester, whose article on Burma you printed on April 11, may be, as you add, “a distinguished foreign correspondent,” but his history (or arithmetic) is not very good. “It is half a century,” he writes, “since Wingate was in the jungles of Burma with his Chindits, 60 years since the building of the Burma Road, 80 since Orwell did his stint with the Burma branch of the colonial police.” The Chindits were in Burma in 1944, the Burma Road was constructed in 1936-38 and Orwell would, 80 years ago, have been four years old.—Yours, etc., z
T. CARTER. April 11, 1987.
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