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...Turkey, only one newspaper even put the news on Page One: some ignored it completely. Radio Iran approved the test resumption. There were no demonstrations in Buddhist Burma, but the Rangoon Guardian said that the nuclear race now "endangers mankind with annihilation." In the Philippines, apathetic reaction was summed up by citizens who asked: "Where's Christmas Island...
...Communist side, Red Prince Souphanouvong had been gone for a fortnight from his headquarters in Khang Khay to celebrate the Buddhist New Year festival with some villagers. Two Red military commanders stopped off in Peking on their way to Moscow. Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Abramov was going on leave after three years in Southeast Asia, hoping for a new assignment...
...India's protests, Red China's Chou En-lai replied that the maps were really "old" ones that his young nation had not got around to revising. India had also been lulled in 1954 when it concluded a trade treaty with the Chinese based on the ancient Buddhist code of Panch Shila, or principles of coexistence, which guaranteed, among other things, mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity...
...Northern Catholic, then, to whom the U.S. decided to tie the survival of predominantly Buddhist South Vietnam. This in a region whose natives traditionally considered Northerners foreign and suspected Catholics of being pro-French. This also at a time when a majority of the population quite openly sympathized with the communist Viet Minh guerrillas who had been leaders of the Independence movement. It was absolutely necessary for Western strategy to create some kind of popular front to challenge the Communists at the general elections which the Geneva Treaty set for 1956 to unify the country. The general elections were never...
During Burma's first decade of independence, the nation's undisputed leader was affable, ascetic Premier U Nu, a sometime Buddhist monk who sought through his politics "to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana." But U Nu was a lackluster administrator, and by 1958 Burma's rice-rich economy was on the brink of ruin and domestic Communists were gaining strength. Willingly, Socialist U Nu turned over power to a military caretaker regime headed by General Ne Win, who restored efficient government, defeated Communist guerrilla bands. After 15 months in office he held elections that...