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...example, Max Ways, Senior Editor for War in Asia and Foreign News, last year toured Japan, China, Siam, Indonesia. And Foreign News' Sam Welles, an incurable globetrotter, covered 35,000 miles on a recent ten and a half months' Far East refresher trip, interviewing sultans, premiers, generals, schoolgirls, farmers and factory hands...
...five critical places on earth that are most vulnerable to Communist attack (the other four: Formosa, Germany, Yugoslavia, Iran). If Indo-China falls, all of southeast Asia is likely to go. The U.S. position in the Philippines would be outflanked. The weak governments of Burma, Siam and Indonesia could probably not long resist Communist pressure, and the Red tide would sweep to the borders of India. Indo-China may hold the difference between limited success and total disaster of U.S. policy and U.S. hopes in Asia...
...Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
...Little Siam had called for 4,000 volunteers to fight in Korea. Last week the books were closed: 11,000 had volunteered. Of the surplus, the government said comfortingly: "It is hoped that in the future they will have a chance to serve...
...Philippines last week offered to send immediately to Korea, for service under the U.N. flag, a regiment of 5,000 combat infantry. That made No. 9 on the list of U.N. members who had sent or offered to send troops. The other eight: the U.S., Britain, Nationalist China, Siam, Australia, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada...