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...wilds of northern Burma last. week, 148 Chinese officers and men, and two young wives, marched down a trail to a prearranged meeting point in a cleared space hacked out of the jungle...
Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team-Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa...
...really distracted him from the tigers was the perennial worry of TIME'S three correspondents in India (Bureau Chief James Burke and Achal Rangaswami are the other two). Their worry: how to get around quickly enough to cover their immense beat-not only India and Pakistan, but also Burma, Ceylon and Nepal. Burke, Brown and Rangaswami must track down news in a territory that is eight times as big as Texas: some 2,000,000 square miles. It includes more than 400 million people (one-fifth of all the people on earth), and the number of dialects spoken...
Later, in Burma, where he served as a squadron commander in Colonel Philip Cochran's famed Air Commando Group, Harman chalked up another first. in helicopter history. He made the world's first military helicopter rescue, bringing out three British soldiers and an American flyer who had crashed in the jungle...
Americans sometimes say that Britain recognizes Peking only because of British imperialist and business interests in Hong Kong. In India and Burma the Labor government showed we were abandoning Britain's traditional imperialism. This was morally right and politically sound...