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...made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...things looked in Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping Indonesia's republicans. Burma's ex-Premier Ba Maw announced that a Burmese expeditionary force (including 100 women) would leave shortly for Indonesia to fight the Dutch. An official spokesman, however, threw cold water on that idea. Said he: "We have our own lawlessness to stamp...
With China falling, Burma in chaos and Indo-China locked in civil war, the West might have been expected to rejoice at the Dutch victory. Instead, W. R. Hodgson, representing Australia at the United Nations, cried: "[This] is worse than what Hitler did to The Netherlands." This immoderate expression went further than the official stands of the Western powers. Nevertheless, adverse criticism of the Dutch move was widespread...
...extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water-coloring. Those on the wall. I got some wonderful opportunities for painting when I was in Burma...
...Burma! She was talking now with an air of finality and I began to move towards the door. "Yes, I've a sister there whom I visited in 1936 for a year." I asked the obvious question. "I was most impressed with the way the natives held themselves." The way they what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested...