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...Burma and Indonesia abstained from voting on the Formosa invasion resolution. Afghanistan followed suit on the Manchurian bombing charge. Only one other nation abstained. On both Russian complaints, Yugoslavia declined to stand up and be counted. It had also abstained earlier this month on the vote branding Red China for aggression in Korea...
...Most Thais live in northern Siam (or Thailand), some in Indo-China, some in eastern Burma...
...Against: Burma, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, India, Poland, the Ukraine, Soviet Union...
...Move. In Rangoon, Burma, Fisherman Gung Shai, after being stranded for 15 months on a desert isle in the Indian Ocean, reported that when a boat finally came to his rescue, its crew bemoaned the state of the world, advised him to stay stranded...
This whale of a story was not quite enough for Calcutta-born John Masters, 36, a wartime brigadier with Wingate in Burma, who has tackled the subject in a first novel. Faithfully following a popular formula (the book is a Literary Guild choice), Masters has lugged in such sideshows as tiger hunts, cholera epidemics and sweaty sessions between Hero Savage and a nubile native queen. ("Her bare thighs were warm, and her hands were on him...'I did wrong...but go on, go on. I love you.' ") Rodney Savage is a man of good will...