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Burma, this faraway land of strange customs, has suddenly become newly important to Americans, a few thousand of whom have fought there, most of whom know it only remotely through a haze of symbols-Terry and the Pirates, The Road to Mandalay, Errol Flynn striding triumphant down the Burma Road. By the light of the flames that roared up over Indo-China, the dark and distant land of Burma has become visible. Can Burma defend its 1,000-mile Red China frontier by itself? Can Burma be saved? Will it get help-or accept...
...Castile," says British Author V. S. Pritchett, "is a landscape of hidden villages, suddenly come upon, like crocks of earthenware in the soil, crumbling in the summer heat, sodden in the torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding...
...unromantic fact the bluegrass is no bluer than the Danube. It is an intense green most of the year. When the grass is in bloom, a faint bluish haze can be detected over the meadows but only with the aid of a strong imagination and a frosty julep...
...twilight at Dienbienphu. Narrow-eyed with loss of sleep, the French sentries peered through the monsoon haze towards the Communist trenches less than roo yards away. All was quiet, and the tired 10,000-man garrison hoped for a fair night's rest. At GHQ in Hanoi, an officer reported: "Lull at Dienbienphu...
...Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective by comparison: it had lost about half of its guns. The surviving French tanks were bogged down in the muck of the early monsoon, and French tactical air was often blinded in the haze. And there was the anguish of the wounded, who could not be flown out due to Red interdiction and part-capture of the airstrip. Wrote Charles Favrel from Indo-China to Paris' influential and neutralist Le Monde...