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...resent your closing statement about the 'inglorious" end of the Marauders. As one of the medical officers, I can vouch for the undying bravery of every Marauder in Burma. In a conversation with the late General Merrill, the former commander of the Japanese forces opposing him in Burma stated that the Japanese so respected the Marauders that they decorated the graves of the American dead with flowers...
...private passion is reading philosophy-Spinoza, the Greeks, the Bible, the ancient Buddhist writings. It is part of his search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...
...Among recent visitors' Bulganin, Khrushchev, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Burma's U Nu. Canada's Lester Pearson, Red China's Madame...
...larger theater of World War II, things happened faster. At 29, he was a lieutenant colonel and acting brigade commander in General Wingate's Chindits in Burma. He retired in 1948. India had taught him his trade; if at his new trade of novelist he is no Kipling-though not a bad substitute until another one comes along-this bit of autobiography proves that he would have made a fine Kipling hero...
Although neither India, Burma nor Afghanistan are colonies, Khrushchev lashed out at "colonialism." "In our speeches in India, Burma and Afghanistan, we exposed the criminal policy of the colonizers." In contrast to Khrushchev, Marshal Bulganin acted like a tired...