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After Words, Deeds. The plan worked out at Calcutta called for simultaneous revolts in Burma and Malaya. Three months after the outbreak of the Malayan revolt, Indonesia's Communists were to strike. As coordination center for the drive a 26-man Soviet Legation, largest in Southeast Asia, was set up in Bangkok...
Most nearly reduced to the Indo-China level was Burma, in normal years the world's largest rice exporter. After Goshal's return from the Calcutta conference, a series of uprisings broke out which reached their peak just when Burmese peasants should have been out in the paddy fields gathering the new crop. Last week, as Burma's parties battled for power, and food prices in Rangoon soared, it was doubtful whether Burma this year could even feed herself...
Muso and his men struck at Madiun, the republic's third largest city, in the heart of Java, straddling a major east-west rail link not far from Jogjakarta, the republic's capital. Supported by a mutinous brigade of the Republican army, they seized the key points in the city, set up a "People's Republic" and called for the immediate overthrow of President Soekarno's Republican government. "These arms," screamed the Communist radio from Madiun, "will not be silent until the whole of Indonesia is free!" President of the "People's Republic" turned...
Avoiding Graveyards. U.S. Catholics spend $182,250,000 a year to run their church schools. This is America's largest single religious expenditure-and more than any U.S. Protestant denomination spends for all purposes. The total 1947 expenditure of the Methodist Church was only $165,000,000; the second highest in Protestantism, $132,000,000, was raised by the Southern Baptist. Over 9% of the total U.S. scholastic enrollment is in Catholic schools; the figure for elementary schools is nearly...
...popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...