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Manufactured in Whitehall. Hussein's Jordan is economic nonsense, a state manufactured in Whitehall after World War I to serve Britain's strategic purposes. Its 37,000 sq. mi. are three-fifths desert, with no oil, no industrial raw materials, tortuous roads and one inaccessible port (Agaba). The population, tripled t01,400,000 by the annexation of part of Palestine and the influx of refugees, is divided against itself. Refugee camps are an organized horror of dirt and malnutrition. Jordan scrapes along largely on British handouts, and glories chiefly in its 15,000-man, British-officered Arab Legion...
...General Assembly's seventh and longest session (100 working days) ended in a salutary display of unity. Before the house was a Burmese resolution accusing Nationalist (Formosa) China of aggression because of the presence of Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi's for aging army in East Burma (TIME, April 13). Russian propaganda has often accused the U.S. of financing and directing Li's army, but this time the Russians did not try to make any anti-American mischief out of the situation...
Burma, former British colony (pop. 16.8 million) which became an independent republic in 1948, has no realistic control over its northeast regions, where it has a long frontier with Red China and Laos. Here Burmese, Red Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...
...would 1) attempt to stop the collection of money from the people of Formosa for the Yunnan army; 2) refuse the clearance of airplanes chartered for the delivery of supplies to the border region. Added Tsiang: "Insofar as we can be said to have some influence over General Li Mi, we have used that influence in favor of the wishes of the government of Burma...
...Burmese newspapers hastily named as Americans, but Washington said no U.S. passports had ever been issued in their names, suggested that the men may have been German deserters from the French Foreign Legion in neighboring Indo-China. The U.S. denied again, as it has before, any responsibility for Li Mi's operations. But the National Salvation Army was beginning to be embarrassing to all concerned. Burma, in a curtly polite note, thanked the U.S. for its $31 million aid program and declined to accept further aid. There was talk of a Russian aid program to Burma...