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...only two nations have signed the treaties. The law is already in effect for China and Burma, and students will soon be able to apply for scholarships in these countries. Other treaties are pending action in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, France, Italy, and Norway...
Last week President Truman's Board of Foreign Scholarships announced that the first Fulbright Act scholarships were open: 50 for U.S. scholars and graduate students to study in China, six more in the new Union of Burma. In the works: agreements with 19 other nations
Like Tiltman, William Costello of CBS had sent critical reports on General MacArthur. Costello, who planned a trip to Java, got the same notice as Tiltman. McGraw-Hill's Alpheus Jessup wanted to visit Malaya and Burma. Ex-General Frayne Baker, MacArthur's P.R.O., ruled Jessup would have to take his wife, who is expecting a child in a month, with...
...Thakin Nu, Premier of newly independent Burma, he sent a good-will copy of Back to Methuselah, confided that he considered it his masterpiece...
Posted to an airfield on the hot central plain of Burma, Forrester had gone through the motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...