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...Burma's gentle, shrewd Premier U Nu, who has been touring the world's capitals from Peking to Washington like a kind of international comparison shopper, faced newsmen on his own home ground last week and reported a neutralist's findings...
...Brigadier General Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, 40, operations officer of the Continental Air Defense Command, World War II ace (16 Jap planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history...
...Fight the Same Evils." U Nu, 48, has been Prime Minister of Burma (pop. 19 million) for all seven of its years as a free country. Beset by two Communist and several factional rebellions, by the legacy of war's chaos, by the inexperience of his young civil servants, U Nu has striven to lift his country toward new hope of survival (TIME, Aug. 30). Modest and meditative U Nu fought the Communists at home, plumped for Nehru's neutralism abroad, but concentrated on leading an extraordinary Buddhist revival which is now the focus of his country...
...pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...
Addressing the Senate and the House of Representatives last week. U Nu developed his theme of friendly neutrality, recalling that Burma and the U.S. were both ex-colonies of Britain, "Both had to struggle to win our rights for self-government." He is trying to lead Burma, said U Nu, by following the U.S. example and working its salvation "by methods of democracy...