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Except for his general feeling of discouragement over the state of his nation, his party and his stomach, nobody knew just why Burma's top man U Nu chose to step down from the premiership nine months ago. Last week, except for the fact that his astrologers had declared the moment auspicious (11:15 a.m., March 1), nobody knew just why U Nu had chosen to take power again. But when U Nu gave the word, the Burmese Parliament without a dissenting vote accepted the resignation of interim Premier U Ba Swe and named U Nu in his place...
...technicalities and delays, until fine hot outrage was largely dissipated and the vote anticlimactic. His own bosses, slow to give him high rating, only last year made him a full member of the Central Committee. Later he accompanied B. & K. on their laughing-boy journey through India and Burma, and was seen on occasion to smile himself...
Pakistan, of course, was so mad that it declared Nehru's annexation day a "black" day, and tens of thousands of Pakistanis rioted. But less predictable was the reaction of Southeast Asian "neutralists," whose admiration for Nehru once knew no bounds. Accusing India of "obvious hypocrisy," Burma's English-language Nation charged that Nehru "has shown himself capable on this issue of flouting the principles he so ardently preaches to other countries." The annexation of Kashmir, said Abadi, voice of Indonesia's powerful Moslem Masjumi Party, "places India on the same level with Soviet Russia...
...last week. Before he moved to Bonn in 1954, he had covered an area of the Middle East encompassing roughly 5,500,000 square miles (area of the U.S.: 3,022,387 square miles). Now his domain is Southeast Asia - Formosa, the Philippines. Indonesia, Malaya, Thailand, Indo-China and Burma. And he may range as far as Australia...
...Burma, Buddhism and Neutralism...