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Boat hooks, cruisers and skilled diplomats can no longer save Britain from frightening collisions. It has been booted ignominiously from Iran, set upon in Egypt, ambushed in Malaya, even sniped at by Argentina. Burma has left the Commonwealth, Ceylon is thinking of leaving. Six of the great overseas Dominions are now as sovereign as Britain itself, legally bound to the mother island only by the thread of mutual allegiance to the Crown. India, though a Dominion, does not even recognize the Crown. Except for short periods, Britain has been unable to pay its way since 1918. At an alarming rate...
Anxiously eying Southeast Asia's vulnerable frontiers, the Pentagon has begun to fear that the next trouble spot may be, not Indo-China, but Burma. A rich prize and weakly held, Burma, which declared its independence from the British Empire in 1947, has a common frontier with Red China which its ill-trained, ill-equipped 50,000-man army shows no capacity to defend. Last week at the Paris meeting of U.N., Burma, as well as Indo-China, was in mind when representatives of the U.S., Britain and France, one by one, got up to warn that any "Communist...
...Burma's ineffectual government, unable to control rebel Karen tribes and armed bands of local Communists, was also disturbed last week by the presence in Burma of remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's troops, led by General Li Mi. Defeated by the Communists in 1949, the Nationalist soldiers fled into Burma, last year made an unsuccessful foray into China's Yunnan Province. They now number about 10,000 men. Said Burma's U.N. Delegate U Myint Thein: "We are doing all we can to get them out of the country, but every time our troops...
Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik was quick to see and seize an opportunity. He charged that the Chinese Nationalist army in Burma is composed of six fully equipped divisions, "with an air supply line from Chengmai in Thailand, where a U.S. staff headquarters, comprising two major generals, seven colonels and 27 majors, is in charge of training...
...Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun would never appear...