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...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...Burma's U Nu made a final round of speeches in Communist China, and headed home to be in Rangoon in time to play host for Tito's state visit to Burma...
Under the Fans. When Chou En-lai recently visited Burma, said U Nu, he expressed his admiration for Burma's moral integrity. U Nu pointed the moral: "Friendly relations between countries, solidarity and progress rest mainly on moral integrity. Here lip service without sincerity cannot achieve anything." Commented Burma's English-language Nation: "It is something like saying to a dangerous animal, 'I know you are a good boy, and won't bite anyone,' when what one really means is, 'I hope you will be a good boy and not bite...
With apparent inconsequentiality, U Nu chattered on about his country. "Burma is a hot country. In all the three seasons-summer, the monsoon and winter-people are perspiring." He added blandly: "I had seen that his Excellency Premier Chou En-lai was perspiring profusely under the fans." It was a sly dig: in Burma, a man is said to be "sweating under the fans" when he has something on his conscience...
...went on to recount the long, friendly relationship between Burma and China. "I want to bring home the fact that only two wars were fought in the course of 1,000 years between China and Burma when China was ruled by foreign warlords who were out for territorial expansion," he said. "When China was ruled by her own national kings, it was found that peaceful relations existed between our two countries." Sitting near by, Moscow's chosen instrument Liu Shao-chi could not fail to get U Nu's point...