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...often seemed curiously reluctant to make any of the moral judgments on Russian behavior that conscience would seem to dictate. President Ibrahim Abboud of the Sudan criticized the French for nuclear testing in the Sahara, did not mention Russia. Sukarno hacked away on the old anticolonialist theme. Only Burma's U Nu seemed willing to give the West an even break. "Let us realize a start has been made toward coexistence," he urged. "There is a growing recognition of personal integrity rather than color, a stirring of the conscience of wealthy countries for the less fortunate...
...then of the troops on the beach. Rusk was not impressed. The ships, he suggested, could unload and retire to the open sea before daylight; as for the troops ashore being unduly inconvenienced by Castro's air, it had been his experience as a colonel in the Burma theater that air attack could be more of a nuisance than a danger. One fact he made absolutely clear: military considerations had overruled the political when the D-minus-two strike had been laid on; now political considerations were taking over...
...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...
...Long Range Penetration force commanded by the famed and fanatical Orde Wingate. "You're going to die," Wingate rasped at one of the men, and the prediction seemed likely. Supplied entirely by air, the brigade was to go 150 miles behind the Japanese lines in Burma and stage the daring attacks and ambushes that made Wingate a legend...
...Knows All." Ostensibly, Bowles was off to attend a series of regional State Department conferences in Nigeria, Cyprus and India, with a couple of side visits to see Yugoslavia's Tito and Burma's Premier U Nu. At each stop he briefed local public officials and newsmen on U.S. determination in Berlin and about the U.S. switch from massive retaliation to what he called flexible defense...