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...statesmen who did have cause for self-satisfaction in 1958 were nearly all new men?relative unknowns who had ridden a wave of discontent into power. Most of them were generals?Lebanon's Chehab, Iraq's Kassem, Burma's Ne Win, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, the Sudan's Abboud. And most seemed to have no program beyond the military man's urge to tidy up the frequently corrupt, frequently ineffectual parliamentary systems of young nations...
Setting a suggestively useful precedent for unhorsed Asian statesmen, ex-Premier U Nu of Burma, who recently turned over his governmental burdens to General Ne Win (TIME, Nov. 10), donned saffron robes, humbly appeared with shaven head for his ordination as a Buddhist priest in Rangoon...
...which Governor Bowles offers is the view that man possesses a very human dignity that must be recognized, praised, and encouraged. "Have some faith in people who want to fix things for themselves," Bowles warns us. The underdeveloped nations are not necessarily nations incapable of acting responsibly. India, Pakistan, Burma--the list is much longer--are not children of the new world, but adults seeking to find their destinies unaided by mawkish pampering and baby-talk admonitions...
That popular Eastern melodrama. Here Come the Generals, which has played so successfully during recent weeks in Pakistan, Burma, Thailand and Iraq, opened to thunderous applause last week in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan...
...said Abboud, to end governmental corruption and chaos and to restore peace and order. Declaring martial law, Abboud shut down all newspapers, banned all political parties and public assemblies or demonstrations. Using almost the identical words of General Ne Win and General Ayub Khan when they seized power in Burma and Pakistan, General Abboud insisted: "I am not a politician. I have been busy with military matters and haven't studied these things...