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...handling of that situation. If "softness toward Communism" can be construed to mean softheadedness toward Korea, your speculation on the chances of a Roman Catholic Veep helping the Dems win in '56 could be justified only if Father Rigney were a candidate. With Red Chinese ranging in Burma, hardy Tibetans battling Mao's tanks with muskets, and a powder-keg "peace" in Korea, I doubt if even a Catholic nudist with the stature of Diana Dors or the popularity of Elvis Presley could do much effective "muffling...
...Anybody who goes for barter deals is out of his mind," said Burma's ex-Premier U Nu-and he should know. Burma's Rangoon docks were still overflowing with the bartered Iron Curtain cement it could not use (TIME, May 21). Originally Burma thought that it had at least got a good price for its surplus rice-only to find that the Soviet Union was upping the prices of the goods it sent in exchange. All this was demoralizing enough. Last week Burma came face to face with another unsettling discovery: it really had no surplus rice...
...States (see map). In some places, Chinese outposts were reported 60 miles within Burma...
...that the story was out in the open, the government admitted that it had quietly lodged two protests with Peking since last November; the first was brushed off, the second had gone unanswered even though, under the much-vaunted Panch Shila or Five Principles of India's Nehru, Burma and Red China had pledged to respect each other's territorial integrity...
...untrue, since such an incursion "would be devoid of military common sense." But at week's end Peking radio conceded that there were troops inside the "disputed" area "in a spirit of friendship. Under these circumstances there is fundamentally no such question as crossing into the territory of Burma...