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TIME, Aug. 30 and Artist Giro are to be congratulated most sincerely on the remarkably expressive portrait of Burma's U Nu-a message of calm intelligence from the East to the West...
...Burma hand (jg), I am sending you a rousing "Thadu!"*for your excellent story on Premier U Nu . . . That TIME is the first major publication to recognize the unique significance of Burma in Southeast Asia and U Nu's great potentiality as a leader of Asian opinion to counteract the shilly-shallying of Pandit Nehru is not surprising, but it is extremely gratifying. It was my privilege to adapt the Prime Minister's play [The People Win Through] as a motion picture and to produce the film in Burma . . . Its thesis, a dramatic explanation and affirmation...
...that event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes." The U.S. working draft had specified "Communist aggression." But Secretary of State Dulles was persuaded to take out the word "Communist" in order to render the agreement more attractive to the four "Colombo powers" (India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon-especially the last two) who had stayed away. In a separate protocol, the U.S. made it clear that it promised to react only to Communist attacks, in order not to get mixed up in brawls between non-Communist Asian nations-for example, a fight between India and Pakistan over...
...largest armies-Formosa and South Korea-were not represented. Nor was Japan, which is potentially the strongest non-Communist power in Asia. Only two powers from the Asian mainland came to Manila: Thailand and Pakistan,-and Pakistan came only to observe. Four of the "Colombo powers"-India, Ceylon, Burma, Indonesia-stayed away...
...threatened by the same kind of "inside job" as Indo-China was, she wanted guarantees against subversion. The Philippines wished to avoid any definition that would require her to help a colonial power quell a genuine nationalist movement. The U.S. wanted to protect the southern tier of Asian states-Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. The Philippines wanted to defend only treaty signers and challenged the right of France to sign for the three independent states of Indo-China...