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TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Never So Few (MGM, 1959) stars Frank Sinatra as a World War II captain in North Burma. To see how M-G-M gets a marble-tub bath scene by Gina Lollobrigida into the film is one reason...
...kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Burma, their hsiao-tzu (literally, "little groups"), of three to 22 members, perform subversive chores wherever possible...
...Fury in the East," including action in the China-Burma-India theater and the war in the Pacific during...
...Nefos were disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma and Ceylon were represented only by their ambassadors, and from India came not Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri but Chidambaram Subramaniam, the Food Minister...
There are more obvious inhibitions to democracy. In the Federalist Paper No. 51, James Madison pointed out that the first requirement of a government is to be able to control the governed. From the Congo to Burma, controlling the governed-often in the face of Communist subversion-is the first order of business that leaves little energy for anything else. Some prerequisites for effective democracy, notably a respect for order and a sense of accommodation without violence, can probably be furnished only by a strong, educated middle class, which is present in few of the emerging nations...