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...succeed him, State appointed Dean Rusk, 41, Georgia-born graduate of Davidson College and also a onetime Rhodes scholar. Rusk, who was deputy chief of staff of U.S. Army forces in the China-Burma-India Theater, joined State in 1946, helped handle hot policy questions in U.N., rose to Deputy Under Secretary, now was on State's hottest spot...
Francis is abetted by Patricia Medina, who plays some sort of spy. Miss Medina wears a shoddy French accent and not much else. She brightens up the Burma landscape considerably...
Francis (Universal-International) is the name of a talented Army mule (already celebrated in David Stern's 1946 comic novel) who not only talks but makes more sense than the whole chain of command. By confiding Japanese secrets to a bewildered Burma campaign shavetail (Donald O'Connor), Francis throws the enemy for a loss and the U.S. brass into a tizzy...
...Hasty Heart" didn't make much of a splash when it opened on Broadway a few seasons ago. John Patrick's play about a dour, friendless Scot in a British army hospital in Burma was perhaps a trifle unconventional for New York audiences. The fact that the Scot is slowly dying, although he doesn't know it, gave the play an undertone of tragedy. "The Hasty Heart" fared better in summer stock, where it has become a standby...
...Nationalist army seems to be good, and officers credit the improvement to the work of trim, greying General Sun Li-jen, 49, who learned the elementary facts about soldiering at the U.S.'s Virginia Military Institute. Sun served ably against the Japanese at Shanghai and later in Burma, where he commanded the snappy, U.S.-trained 38th Division. As one of the Nationalists' top commanders in Manchuria after V-J day, he beat the Communists consistently. In 1947, Chinese clique politics led to his transfer to Formosa and the Fengshan training camp...