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...bluff, hearty, polo-playing officer with unrivaled popularity among the soldiers, who resigned from the Indian army in 1959 because of clashes with Menon. The present army chief of staff, General Pran N. Thapar, 56, is another veteran soldier who served with distinction in World War II campaigns in Burma, the Middle East and Italy...
Controversy is also expected over the election of a new Secretary General. Logical candidate for the job is Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral...
Some time soon, Burma's U Thant must decide if he wants a full five-year stint as United Nations Secretary-General after his present temporary term expires next April. The U.S. hopes he will stay on, the Asian and African nations mostly support him, and his visits to eight countries in the past four months have shown that he is well regarded in most of Western Europe and Latin America. But what about the Communists? Last week ubiquitous U Thant bustled off to Russia to see how he rates...
...Resourceful, Victory. Slim gallantly-and refreshingly-admits his own strategic errors in Burma, and gives plentiful credit to subordinates. The Burmese war, he argues, was an ideal training ground for future battles of a nuclear...
...devastation had been survived," insists Slim, "victory would go, as it did in our other jungle, to the tougher, more resourceful infantryman. The easier and more gadget-filled our daily life becomes, the harder will it be to produce him. It took us some time to do so in Burma. It can be done in peace; in war, there will no longer be so much time...