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...faraway land, he came bearing thoughtful gifts: a pint of his blood for a U.S. hospital; a silver gong suspended between ivory elephant tusks for the President; a check for $5,000 for distressed families of G.I.'s killed or incapacitated in the liberation of his country, Burma, during World...
...Premier of Burma, U Nu, is visiting us," the President said at his press conference expressing "great gratification that he came over. The returning travelers and observers in that area have spoken of him in the most glowing terms as to ability and his leadership qualities." At midday in the White House, the President and his guest had lunch, and the President happily bonged his new gong...
...front lines at Guadalcanal, covered the Allied campaign in New Guinea, watched the Japanese surrender in Manila Bay as a World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once: in Burma he escaped the massacre of the Chinese unit to which he was attached, and on Leyte a bomb fatally wounded three U.S. newsmen sleeping alongside...
...glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians. The U.N. Plaza has become Manhattan's top tourist attraction...
...named a fascinating slate-North Viet Nam, Burma, Indonesia and Siam from Asia; Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Czechoslovakia from Europe. Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...