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...turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that was blocking Asian Communism from flooding through to Burma, Siam, and probably all Southeast Asia...
...University, came to TIME after a war career as a soldier-reporter for Yank Magazine in the Far East. He was the Army weekly's first cor respondent in the Pacific, covered the New Guinea campaign, walked an esti mated 600 miles in forays behind enemy lines in Burma with Merrill's Marauders, rode the first convoy over the Ledo-Burma Road from India to China, dropped into Japanese-held Rangoon with Gurkha paratroops, and was awarded the Legion of Merit by General Douglas MacArthur...
...General James H. Stratton, Knappen's West Point classmate, came in two years before Knappen's death in 1951. Their work is scattered so far that they divide up the world among them. Tippetts looks after North Africa, Abbett the Near East and Bolivia; McCarthy watches Haiti, Burma, Puerto Rico, Portugal and Greece; General Stratton supervises Turkey, Colombia and Cuba. The fifth partner, William Lidicker, looks after Israel plus the U.S. projects, which comprise about 50% of their work...
...undeveloped mineral wealth, and for building big, new port facilities. In addition, it includes the establishment of a number of new industries (basic chemicals, plastics, bamboo pulp and paper), and the modernization of others. All told, the projects call for the spending of $1.5 billion, two-thirds of which Burma's government thinks it can raise to lift the whole nation's productive capacity by 50% in a decade. The rest of the money will be sought from private-risk capital...
...Burma project is no more ambitious than one the partners are already developing in Iraq. On the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, they are engineering a $555 million project to reclaim the Tigris-Euphrates valley from its encrusted alkalis, make it bloom with crops enough to feed the entire population of 5,000,000. Their ditches are following the course of those put down by another Army engineer, Alexander the Great. "He picked so well," says Near East Boss Abbett, "we found we could not improve...