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...General Assembly's seventh and longest session (100 working days) ended in a salutary display of unity. Before the house was a Burmese resolution accusing Nationalist (Formosa) China of aggression because of the presence of Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi's for aging army in East Burma (TIME, April 13). Russian propaganda has often accused the U.S. of financing and directing Li's army, but this time the Russians did not try to make any anti-American mischief out of the situation...
Seeing the big nations behaving so mannerly, some of the small nations decided that the Burma question might be susceptible to discussion. A gentler substitute motion, formally sponsored by Mexico, was introduced. It deplored the "foreign forces" in Burma, called on them either to disarm and get out, or be interned, and recommended that "the negotiations now in progress through the good offices of certain members [meaning the U.S.] should be pursued." Nowhere did the compromise Mexican resolution-mention "aggression" or identify the offending forces...
Protest. A fortnight ago, Burma formally asked the U.N. to condemn the Nationalist government on Formosa for an act of aggression, and accused its armies of preying on the countryside and instituting a "veritable reign of terror-looting, pillaging, raping and murdering." The Burmese said that the original Li Mi force of 1,700 men had been built up into an army of 12,000 by local recruiting, and was now commanded by Chinese Nationalist General Liu Kuo-chuan. The whereabouts of General Li Mi was now something of a mystery: the Nationalists say he is in Formosa recovering from...
...Yunnan army; 2) refuse the clearance of airplanes chartered for the delivery of supplies to the border region. Added Tsiang: "Insofar as we can be said to have some influence over General Li Mi, we have used that influence in favor of the wishes of the government of Burma...
...Attack. Burma was not yet satisfied. In a sharp attack near Monghsat, Burmese troops found the bodies of white men, whom Burmese newspapers hastily named as Americans, but Washington said no U.S. passports had ever been issued in their names, suggested that the men may have been German deserters from the French Foreign Legion in neighboring Indo-China. The U.S. denied again, as it has before, any responsibility for Li Mi's operations. But the National Salvation Army was beginning to be embarrassing to all concerned. Burma, in a curtly polite note, thanked the U.S. for its $31 million...