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Another conference on Southeast Asia will convene this week in the Philippine mountain resort of Baguio. At the invitation of Carlos Romulo, newly appointed Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs, delegates from the Philippines, Korea, India, Pakistan, Siam, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand will discuss economic and cultural cooperation and a vague proposal for a Southeast Asian union. According to Host Romulo, the conference would be "nonCommunist" rather than "anti-Communist," which was another way of saying that in all likelihood it would produce doubletalk instead of concrete action. Romulo himself last week gave a preview of the doubletalk. Said...
...French invested $2 billion, built up Indo-China's rice and rubber production; before World War II, the colony, along with Siam and Burma, was one of the world's three leading rice exporters. Its surplus went to rice-short China, a fact of great significance these days in Communist China's support of Communist Ho Chi Minh. All the raw rubber France needed came from Indo-China. There were other lucrative items: coal, wolfram, pepper, opium (which, to French shame, was sold to the natives through a state monopoly) and many jobs for a white bureaucracy...
...economic aid program which had saved Greece and Turkey. The State Department, though it still refused to take any interest in saving strategically vital Formosa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had finally reached a key decision as to other threatened lands: if the Communists were to be kept from Burma, Siam, Malaya and even Indonesia, they must be stopped now in Indo-China...
...well buttressed within 15 months. The cost: $60 million in economic help-to be administered by a small crew of U.S. engineers and technicians. Indo-China should get $23 million for agricultural and public-health improvements, he said. About $11 million apiece should go to Indonesia, Burma and Siam, and $5,000,000 to Malaya. There were no legislative problems about the money: it could come out of the $100 million EGA appropriation for the "general area of China" which Congress was expected to send to the President this week...
...births in such cases; most liveborn joined twins die in infancy. But medical history records perhaps twoscore cases which have reached maturity, usually joined at or near the rump, where fewest organs are affected. Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children, and died...