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...Southeast Asia, where these portents seemed especially clear, armed Communist insurrections in recent years were narrowly put down in Malaya, Indonesia, Burma and the fragmented states carved from French Indo-China...
...Burma. Three months after able General Ne Win took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced...
Stop the Movie. Sailing away on New Year's morning, after ten days of such treatment in Indonesia, Tito might have been looking ahead to more of the same at the next port of call. But Burma unexpectedly asked him to delay his arrival two days, until its national independence celebration was over. On his last visit to Burma in 1955, when his neutralist friend U Nu was Premier, crowds thronged the streets of Rangoon beneath banners that proclaimed "Long Life to Great Tito!" When he arrived in Rangoon last week, after seven days at sea, the atmosphere...
Tito's visit has caused rumblings in Communist circles all over Asia, and General Ne Win was in no mood to borrow trouble with his Red Chinese neighbors on the north. Red China and Burma dispute their common border, and Ne Win's army is trying to rout out Communist guerrillas. Red China's Ambassador Li I-mang has lately complained to the Burmese for permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal...
WILL 1959 BE MOUNTBATTEN'S YEAR? cried a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...