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...News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London after the Russians' insulting remarks in India and Burma...
...their ears in thick fur coats, Bulganin and Khrushchev hurried from their homecoming plane to an arc-lighted platform, told Russia's radio and TV audience that it had been a "wonderful trip." Said Khrushchev: "In the 370 million people of India, as well as the people of Burma and Afghanistan, we have allies in the struggle for peace throughout the world . . . India is a great and good friend of our country. Just like the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. India stands firmly in the ranks of the struggle for peace. And India, China...
Decisive Moment. "We will walk back into Burma," said Merrill firmly, as his men left India in February 1944. For the next four months, supplied by airdrops and using only mules and their own feet for transport, they slogged 500 miles across the most nightmarish terrain on earth, fought five major engagements and 30 minor ones against the crack Japanese 18th Division, whose commanders were convinced that the regimental-strength Marauders totaled two full divisions...
Flitting and stabbing day and night, sometimes fighting as long as 36 hours without food or water, crawling on hands and knees up sheer mountains, the end-running Marauders met the Japanese in obscure clearings with names like Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Miangkwan. This was the primitive Burma where tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...
Born: April 9, 1906, the younger of two sons, in London. His mother was Scottish, his father an English official in the colonial service. Young Hugh spent his first years shuttling with a nanny between England and Burma...