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...great diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...
...chunky S. S. Nemchina; the U.S. is helping Asian lands only to enslave and "rob" them, and sinister strings are attached to U.S. offers. The Asians responded in unfamiliar fashion. Nemchina's words had stung their pride: instead of trying to prove their neutralism, the delegates of India, Burma and Pakistan sprang to the defense...
Reischauer agreed that recent hush-hush talks between political leaders of South Korea, Nationalist China and Japan may well foreshadow an Asian economic pact. Also included might be Siam, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, he indicated...
...last of Britain's empire builders who helped establish British rule in the Middle East at the end of the Victorian era; in Dunbar, Scotland. General Wingate (cousin of Major General Charles Orde Wingate, head of "Wingate's Raid ers," who was killed in Burma in World War II) commanded the Egyptian army from...
...former Mrs. G. Huntington Hartford, who succeeded Joan Crawford) have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There's no point in inviting people you don't get a chance to visit with," says Host...