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...Another Johns Hopkins branch, with five students, was started in Rangoon, Burma, last June...
...concerned about the possibility of a war of encounter. Its worry, as hinted by Dulles, is the thought of what happens if non-Communist Asians lose heart and collapse into Communism. Then, indeed, there might be a general conflict, with the Western powers attempting to rescue Malaya, Indonesia, Siam, Burma and even Japan. Quemoy and Matsu have one meaning in the U.S. nightmare, another in the British nightmare. Dulles' main task at the Manila Pact conference in Bangkok this week will be to state the Asian danger in terms that will bring Britain and other participating nations to understand...
...Organize economic aid for Southeast Asia. The aim: to raise living standards by fostering economic development. Thailand and the Philippines would like to get preferential economic treatment for having signed the treaty. The British, who are already, through the Colombo Plan, giving economic aid to Asian nations (India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon) irrespective of their political color, prefer to continue that way. The U.S., too, prefers to distribute its own aid unilaterally...
...China's warlike preparations and warlike declarations. The forces for an attack are in place. Meanwhile, the. Peking government has been promising its people to take Formosa this year at the top of its voice. The Peking leaders have also been assuring leaders of neutral nations, like Burma and India, that they mean every word they say about taking Formosa...
Blunt as Chou was, his renewed vow to "liberate" Formosa omitted one essential: when. The Communists were careful to leave themselves time. Peking is patient, Chou En-lai explained when Burma's Premier U Nu visited Peking last December, and expects to win Formosa not by force of arms but by subversion and defection...