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...more than a "peace-loving" Chinese Communist could stand. Every recent visitor to Peking, from Britain or India or Burma, kept softly urging China's Chou En-lai to ease tensions and stop being so provocative. What's more, they insisted on taking literally what he had said about peaceful coexistence and noninterference in others' domestic affairs, and even acted as if they expected him to live up to his promises...
...latest such distinguished visitor was Burma's mild, shrewd little Premier U Nu. Mao Tse-tung's China gave him the regular bear-hug welcome, and was aggrieved to find its guest full of gentle remonstrances...
Last week, nearly ten years after the Japanese armies retreated from a ravaged Burma, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations concluded final peace terms, and toasted the agreement in champagne. As reparation for the wartime occupation, Japan promised to send Burma $20 million-a-year worth of machinery and goods for the next ten years, along with technicians, and to invest another $5,000,000 annually in such joint enterprises as power projects and factories. Thus out of the peace Japan stands to get a friendly foothold in the Burma market...
...Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, the devout Buddhist head of an overwhelm ingly Buddhist nation (TIME, Aug. 30), laid the cornerstone of a Student Chris tian Foundation building at Rangoon University. U Nu presented his hosts with a check for 5,000 kyats ($1,042), urged Burma's more than 18 million Buddhists and 600,000 Christians to do their "utmost to preserve religious tolerance...
Handsome and dashing Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma,* had known many triumphs since his father's downfall. The stigma of his German ancestry had long since been erased in the process of anglicizing Battenberg to Mountbatten. Though once dismissed as a mere playboy, he had had the satisfaction in World War II of seeing his superiors seethe as he was plucked from beneath them to be made first an acting admiral and later Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia...