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Needless Resentments. But what of the other non-Communist powers in Asia -the neutralists, the hesitant? It is another principle of old-fashioned diplomacy to win as many friends as you can to your side, and to deny as many as you can to the enemy. Asians like Burma's Premier U Nu want to be friendly with the West, but refuse to join a military pact. Rather than abandon them, or berate them, or wheedle them, the U.S. should seek a separate relationship that involves neither slight to them nor undue soliciting of their favor...
...world," which it says it will aim to build? Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful co-existence and noninterference...
Refusals: Indonesia. Burma. India...
...Lien are agreed that the student body should be interracial. As such, they think, Nanyang may well become free China's academic frontier, the conserver of its culture, its link with the West. "I say this humbly," says Tan, "but into the diverse cultures of the South Seas - Burma, Thailand, IndoChina-it was the culture and civilization of China that brought the rule of law, of ethics, the written language. We want to preserve this, to give our children a chance to learn and study this heritage. And we want others, if they wish, to be able...
...penetration of Southeast Asia. Its guarantees would probably include the protection of Laos, Cambodia and South Viet Nam, although these countries, with their freedom restricted by the Geneva agreement, might not be able to join SEATO. Probable signatories: the U.S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Philippines, possibly Burma and Ceylon. Likely conference site: Baguio, the Philippines' mountainside summer capital. Probable date of the conference: early September. The meeting will be brief, allowing enough time for the foreign ministers to hurry to New York for another fight against Communist infiltration, at the convening of the ninth General Assembly...