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Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team-Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa...
...taxi drivers, shopkeepers, peddlers and other Chinese, putting to shame a spindly showing of some 2,500 Mao flags on the Communists' fourth anniversary ten days earlier. Chinese in nearby Portuguese Macao put out 5,000 Nationalist flags where only 67 Communist flags had flown. In Siam, many Chinese leaders who had been conspicuous fence-sitters attended a holiday reception at the Nationalist embassy, and from Singapore, 128 Chinese associations sent pledges of support to Chiang. "It isn't because the past was memorable," commented Hong Kong's Truth Daily. "It's just because the present...
After floods, typhoons and the wettest summer in 50 years, Japan measured her rice crop last week and found it 2,000,000 tons short. The Ministry of Agriculture's verdict: the worst crop in twelve years. Japan, which even in good years must import rice (mainly from Siam), will be able to buy only about 1,000,000 tons, since prices are so high ($213 a ton) and most rice-surplus countries are lagging behind their prewar production...
...attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that was blocking Asian Communism from flooding through to Burma, Siam, and probably all Southeast Asia...
...Bangkok last week, in response to a U.N. resolution, a four-power commission of military officers (the U.S., Burma, Siam and Nationalist China) got together on a touchy question: the removal of 12,000 Nationalist Chinese guerrillas from the wilds of northern Burma, where they have been sporadically fighting Chinese Reds and Burmans alike (TIME, May 18). Whether the guerrillas would leave at the commission's bidding is another question...