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Buchman and became actively involved with the Moral Re-Armament. During the next thirty years she traveled the entire globe, not once but many times. On the blank pages of her Bible, she jotted down in a scholarly hand so minute that it sometimes defies the reader, the details of her journeys between 1929 and 1964. The record shows that during these years she visited some forty countries, many of them several times. She went as far as North Rihsgrensen in Norway, and as far South as Melbourne: as far East as New Guinea and as far West as Honolulu. She crossed the United States from East to West and North to South at least eight times. The story of her travels during these years is virtually the story of MRA's race against time to remake men and nations.
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Myanmar, then under military dictatorship. Between 1963 and 1968 she lived either in Switzerland or in Britain, however her mind and heart continued to roam the world. It was always a particular joy to her to meet the Asian delegates who year by year attended the conference of the ILO at Geneva. Many of them would come up for weekends to Caux, where they found a welcome and faith which they did not always find at the other end of the lake. In 1968 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, spending that Christmas in hospital. In February of 1989 she was strong enough to make the journey to Panchgani for a conference. On March 8th she succumbs to her illness. At her funeral her close friend Rajmohan Gandhi spoke simply of her life and work.
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was immobilized in Burma during the
Japanese occupation, she seems never to have spent a period of twelve months in any single country and only one on the same continent. In August 1939 she was one of the speakers at the MRA Assembly of Nations in the Hollywood Bowl, when 30,000 packed the vast theatre. in May 1940 she went to see Mahatma Gandhi. She was in Burma when the Japanese overran and occupied it in 1942. As soon as the occupation ended, she returned to Rangoon. By this time, she had become a national figure and on National Day she was invited to address the nation over the radio. She was part of the MRA force which in 1948 went to the ruined cities of West Germany and brought fresh hope and faith to millions in the grip of despair and nihilism.
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Peter Howard, and presented his musical play “The
Vanishing Island”. In 1957 she took part in an Assembly for the Nations of the Pacific at Baguio in the Philippines, next year she traveled through the deep South of the United States as a member of the cast of another musical play, The Crowning Experience, based on the life of Mary McLeod Bethune. She was in Little Rock, Arkansas, at a moment when its race riots were capturing the headlines of the world's press and became a close friend of Daisy Bates.
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Chungking and Shanghai in 1940, when China and Japan were at war. After the Second World War she was twice in Taiwan. Japan, she came to know intimately through many visits. She was eight times in Germany and more often still in Britain. Between 1935 and 1964, apart from the years when she
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While her mind and heart roved across the world. Ma Mi remained to the end a passionate
Burmese patriot, and she was intensely proud of her Burmese citizenship. However, after her passport expired in 1966 the Burmese government never issued her another one and she was issued a Swiss refugee card but
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In 1931, she decided to dedicate her life to God after feud broke out between the
Buddhists and the Christian girls at the school. Although, the issue was resolved quickly and her conduct was found appropriate, she decided to leave academia and started traveling on various religious assignments. In
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Nyein Tha was born in 1899 in
Moulmein, a pleasant town and seaport looking out westwards over the Bay of Bengal. Her parents were people of character and faith, who taught her "to obey God and serve her country". Her great grandfather had come from Canton in China. At the age of twenty-two, after
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In 1952 and 1953 she accompanied the force of two hundred and fifty under Dr
Buchman's leadership which traveled through Ceylon and India. Two years later she was with the World Mission, two hundred and fifty strong from 28 countries, which traveled across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, led by
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