Word: burma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Closeted together for ten hours, Chou and Nehru presumably discussed all the touchy subjects that lay between them: Communist buildup in Nepal and Tibet. Chinese intentions toward Burma and Formosa; but a good deal, if not most, of the talking centered around what Nehru will tell President Eisenhower about Chou when he visits the U.S. later this month. "Now is the time," Chou told U.S. reporters, "to establish better relations. Perhaps that is not the view of the United States, and perhaps John Foster Dulles does not like me, but maybe our successors will be able to get together...
...Burma: Gained independent international stature by its willingness to abandon neutralist caution, and boldly declare its opposition to Communist assaults at home and abroad...
Everyone or No One. Where the harsher Cuban resolution had won the support of only four Asian "neutrals"-Burma, Cambodia. Ceylon and Laos-every Asian member of the U.N. and more than half of its twelve Arab members lined up against the U.S.S.R. to pass the Menon resolution by a vote of 57 to 8. Rarely in its battle to win the good opinion of humanity had Russia suffered a more significant defeat...
...think his half of the country was here to stay; they did not approve of someone who openly accepted alliance with and aid from the U.S. But Diem's surprising success, and Communist North Viet Nam's conspicuous failures, have been changing Asian minds. Last week Burma's U Nu, a man increasingly disillusioned by his Communist neighbors, paid a social call on Diem in Saigon, came away impressed: "I was told you were a man with a martial look, but I see you are charming." Added a U Nu aide: "Our press says Viet...
...Bombay, addressing Socialists from 23 nations, Burma's Premier U Ba Swe had no such difficulty determining the facts or responding to them. Said he: "Russia has shot down hundreds of people whose only guilt was to ask Russians to leave Hungary...