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...elected, it could not then serve on the Security Council. Despite objections, however, the Assembly voted, and Yugoslavia was elected with U.S. support. But lined up against the United States were Britain and the Commonwealth countries, the three Scandinavian states, the Benelux countries, as well as Israel, India, and Burma...
When Campbell applied for a visa to visit Burma with the Russians, he got an angry refusal. Happily, the British embassy came to his aid by assuring the Burmese that TIME'S Campbell had never been to Burma, had never participated in a rebellion anywhere...
...hard to believe that the public anywhere in the world underestimates the destructive power of atomic weapons. The dictionaries of all languages have been combed for superlatives to describe the devastation that would ensue from atomic war. Could an observer from Russia or Burma or Bolivia take home a description more impressive than Commissioner Murray's own? In the U.S., physicists, generals and plain men, approaching the new weapons from different angles and at different levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude...
Coming in delegations, in organized droves, from China, Mongolia, North Korea and North Viet Nam, India, Burma and Afghanistan, these visitors, many of whom have never seen a large city before, are awesomely impressed by Moscow, by the gilt and the grandiosity, and see no incongruity in the joylessness of Muscovites. At the red granite tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, day after day they queue behind their guides waiting for the moment to file silently past the embalmed Communist leaders, their wax en faces still faintly saturnine. Here, as at the Bolshoi, the Western visitor, brought quickly...
Nothing is too insignificant to escape their wrenlike curiosity. "You'd be surprised at the signs," says Mrs. Gill. "I noted them down. The ones we saw all over the United States were the Clabber Girl advertisement, Quaker State motor oil, Burma-Shave, Harold's Club of Reno and Jesse James's Hideout." Mrs. Gill has also noted every highway sign she has seen that needs correcting. "America," she says, "is full of wrong directions...