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While U.S. military men talked about plans for a new main line of defense in Thailand, U.S. diplomats were conferring in a dozen capitals on the terms of the long-contemplated Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Britain, meanwhile, began consultations with the Colombo powers (India, Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan and Ceylon) in the dubious hope of inducing them to join the SEATO conferees...
...prestige with folly,'' said Churchill warmly, and the rebels knew their hope was gone. Nonetheless, the rebels stood their ground. Next day one of them, onetime Guards Major Edward Legge-Bourke, formally quit the Tory Party and said he would sit as an Independent. "From Palestine, from Burma, from India, from Persia, from the Sudan and now from Egypt the ignominious retreat has gone on," the major cried. "Where next are we to be pushed from?" Despite all the bluster from the rear, the Tories should be able to get a majority for a Suez agreement. They...
Lenin for a Rupee. The policy of the Burmese government is so neutralist that "there are even two rival 'All-Burma Student Unions,' with identical names, one Communist, one anti-Communist." There has been no serious effort to ferret out Communist teachers from the nation's 211 Chinese schools, or any effective attempt to counterbalance the active (100 members) Marxist Chinese Students Association at the University of Rangoon. In Indonesia the problem is much the same. There are some 100 Chinese schools in the country, and many of these show their sympathies by displaying huge portraits...
...nine hours Chou conferred with Burma's able Socialist Premier Nu, who had warned Nehru at the Colombo conference (TIME, May 10) that the Communists in Indo-China and in Burma's own upcountry regions were a little too close for comfort. The two ministers reportedly considered a Red China-Burma non-aggression pact, and in public they hailed their "most friendly and cordial meeting." The pro-government papers eagerly paid tribute to Red China as the Asian power "capable of keeping at bay the capitalist military machine." But in Burma, unlike India, it seemed that there were...
...Chou left Rangoon for home, the Burmese army delivered a farewell token of its own: it stormed into headquarters of a Red guerrilla band in Kachin state, less than 50 miles from the Red China border, and killed a couple of Chou's top-ranking agents in Burma...