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Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...
...charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks as if a giant hand had smashed its buildings to the ground...
...China. If IndoChina goes, several things happen right away. The [Malay] Peninsula, the last little bit of land hanging on down there [see map^. would be scarcely defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming, and all India would be outflanked. Burma would be in no position for defense...
Tucked helplessly in an endlessly potential storm center of East-West politics, the amiable, ultranationalistic people of Burma need all the moral encouragement they can get. Last week Burma invited the U.S.'s ebullient uplifter Dale Carnegie to come and deliver a series of lectures on 1) courage, 2) systematic-mindedness, 3) noble character, 4) honesty, and 5) perseverance. He needs no introduction: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People has long been a bestseller in Burma; its translator is none other than Prime Minister...
...politics are comparatively liberal; he plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his equally controversial wife Edwina...