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Noel Sherry, assistant circulation manager of TIME-LIFE International, has just returned from a 16,000-mile business trip to Hawaii, Siam, Indo-China, Indonesia, the Bahrein Islands, Iran, Turkey, Israel, and way places around the world. His account of his six-month journey seems to offer an interesting supplement to the daily reports of trained journalists in these areas. It contains much evidence that U.S. influence is truly global and touches the lives of the people everywhere...
...diplomacy's search for a Far Eastern policy settled down leisurely for three days in Bangkok. To Siam's templed capital came America's top foreign-service officers from stations throughout the Orient. They had been summoned by roving Ambassador Philip C. Jessup and Assistant Secretary of State W. Walton Butterworth to mull over a program that might check the southerly flow of Communism at China's borders...
...indecisiveness of U.S. diplomacy in the face of the vast crisis in Asia was all too apparent to the Americans' Siamese hosts. Jessup and Butterworth called on Siam's Premier Phibun Song-gram (see cut), and had some refreshments, but they seemed to have made no firm impression that the U.S. had advanced beyond the scouting-and-thinking stage in Southeast Asia. No one seemed to talk of action. While U.S. diplomats dallied, the Bangkok government pointedly let it be known that it would not yet follow the U.S.-British lead in recognizing the French-sponsored...
...Bangkok's streets the Americans could hear the pop and splutter of firecrackers. Thousands of Siam's Chinese (a vigorous, influential one-sixth of the country's 18 million inhabitants) were celebrating the Chinese New Year-and the signing of the Sino-Soviet treaty...
...rain trees the shade was cool. Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual. In this peaceful setting, on the campus of a Presbyterian girls' school in Bangkok, Siam, 98 churchmen from 15 countries assembled last week to talk over a situation almost as dangerous and difficult as the Christians faced in the days of the catacombs...