Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectacular arrival in England last week of General Ivan Serov, boss of Russia's dread secret police (see FOREIGN NEWS), was in sharp contrast to his discreet entry into India and Burma last December-when TIME first turned a journalistic spotlight on him. During the early part of that tour with Khrushchev and Bulganin, Serov managed to remain always close at hand but as unobtrusive as a plainclothesman. At state functions and banquets he was billed on programs and place cards simply as I. Serov. This meaningful name on the list of the Khrushchev-Bulganin entourage sent TIME...
...correspondents in Washington tapped diplomatic sources, while New Delhi Bureau Chief Alexander Campbell tried the direct approach with Serov in Burma. Serov fixed him with his cold, pale eyes and said: "I am not interested in your career - why should you be interested in mine...
Nevertheless, Asian nations such as Burma have not felt that direct U.S. aid is totally acceptable; it has sometimes, they say, imposed finished projects on resentful recipient nations. These nations justifiably feel they can participate more fully in planning and administering development projects if the aid comes to them from multi-lateral funds in which they themselves have an important voice. Ultimate U.S. control over its own funds is certainly not lost in multi-lateral aid programs: each year Congress shows its concern by inspecting closely the purposes, administration, and projects of the U.N. program just as it scrutinizes this...
...proposal for a fund for long-term aid is also important as the first concrete U.S. reaction to the promises made by the Soviet leaders in Africa and Asia. From Burma, India, and Afghanistan in the East, to Egypt and Liberia in the West, the Soviets have tried to sell the notion that they can best provide the capital and technicians and equipment needed by less developed nations. It is pointless to proclaim that Asians must beware Soviets bearing gifts, for the gifts look pretty delectable to free, but underveloped countries. The only answer is for the United States...
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas got a painful lesson in the British laws of libel, learned that reflections upon the character and ability of a British official can be dangerous. The defamed Briton: Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Britain's onetime (1941-46) governor of Burma, whom Douglas accused of general bungling in office in his travelogue North from Malaya. In a court-approved settlement, Lawyer Douglas and his British publisher last week offered "sincere apologies and regrets...