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When I consider the 80 million Moslems in Indonesia and the 50 million in China, and the millions in Malaya, Siam and Burma, and the close to 100 million in the Middle East, and the 40 million inside the Soviet Union, and the other millions in far-flung parts of the world−when I consider these hundreds of millions united by a single creed, I emerge with a sense of the tremendous possibilities which we may realize through the cooperation of all these Moslems, a cooperation not going beyond the bounds of their natural loyalty to their own countries...
With the exception of the opening scene, The King and I takes place in a CinemaScopic dream--the fantastic palace of the King of Siam. Faced with such an opportunity for gaudy sets and elaborate musical numbers, Hollywood could well have done as it has in the past and made a Spectacle of the film and itself. That The King and I is a pleasant and charming movie is due as much to the direction of Walter Lang as to the original Rogers and Hammerstein libretto...
...King and I (20th Century-Fox) has already completed one cycle (from Margaret Landon's bestselling 1944 novel, Anna and the King of Siam, to the 1946 movie, starring Rex Harrison and Irene Dunne) and is now busily completing another (from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical to the current film...
...Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were staging their first joint maneuvers to show how fast they could come to the aid of their ally. A task force of U.S., British, Australian and New Zealand warships knifed northward through the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Crisp and impressive, 650 Philippine infantrymen rolled ashore from a U.S. seaplane tender in the harbor. U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars, lugging men and arms from Japan, came up like thunder across the South China...
Similar letters, postmarked from Siam, also reached Malay and Chinese political leaders, asking for a "round table conference" in the jungle. Said Lieut. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, director of the Operations Committee, last week: "This is the first really noticeable crack in the Malayan Communist Party." To the 35,000 police and 172,000 home guards, it seemed a vindication of long and dangerous duty. In the last four years they have reduced the number of terrorist incidents from a monthly total of 606 to 66, the number of terrorists at large from...