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Russia, and the reality of the rat-race which it is. In so far as he thought, by wild flatteries and wilder lies, to knock in a wedge of misunderstanding between India and the West, his attempt has been a failure; and all that he has done in Burma has been to embarrass his hosts to the point of stupefaction. Mr. Khrushchev had better watch out when he gets back to Moscow, for he has spun enough rope on this excursion to hang a dozen men of his girth...
...showing. Even old Winston Churchill came out of his comfortable hibernation to make his first political pronouncement since his retirement: "You have all been following the exhibition-I use no other word-which the heads of the Russian state have been making of their tour through India and Burma. It has certainly been a surprising spectacle and one which Her Majesty's government will no doubt study carefully before they allow it, with suitable variants, to be repeated here...
Almost as one, Britons cried "foul" at the insults and distortions Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin have been strewing around Burma and India. They winced at being depicted as the deposed usurers and enslavers of Asia, but what angered them more was Khrushchev's distorted and reiterated cry that Britain, France and the U.S. had instigated World War II and sent the Nazis marching toward Russia. Britons remember too well when they stood alone against Hitler, and when Hitler felt safe to move against them because he had protected his rear by an infamous pact with Communist Russia...
Heavily laden with gifts ranging from a coconut-shell lampshade to a baby tiger, the roving Communists flew on to Burma. At roughly the same moment, Communist insurgents in the Burmese city of May-myo were busy kidnaping two doctors of the World Health Organization...
...bemused curiosity, whooping it up with impromptu jig steps only when Russian cameras were on them. But despite a rigidly observed Buddhist teetotalism at all official functions and banquets, the visitors struggled manfully to display their vaunted ebullience. At Rangoon's town hall, Comrades Khrushchev, Bulganin and Burma's Premier U Nu all joined hands together and beamed for a battery of photographers. "World tensions," said the Burmese Premier, "have been reduced by your efforts...