Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Li Mi, 50, is the handsome, scarfaced Nationalist who controls the Chinese Nationalist guerrillas entrenched in the chasmed wilderness that is Burma's border with China. His troops, who style themselves the Yunnan Anti-Communist and National Salvation Army, retreated into Burma after the Nationalist collapse of 1949; they claim to be preparing for a reinvasion of their homeland, and the destruction of the Communist regime...
...General Assembly's seventh and longest session (100 working days) ended in a salutary display of unity. Before the house was a Burmese resolution accusing Nationalist (Formosa) China of aggression because of the presence of Chinese Nationalist General Li Mi's for aging army in East Burma (TIME, April 13). Russian propaganda has often accused the U.S. of financing and directing Li's army, but this time the Russians did not try to make any anti-American mischief out of the situation...
Burma, former British colony (pop. 16.8 million) which became an independent republic in 1948, has no realistic control over its northeast regions, where it has a long frontier with Red China and Laos. Here Burmese, Red Chinese and Li Mi's Nationalist Chinese mix like the colors of a dangerous kaleidoscope. If they can fight their way to the Mekong River at the border of Laos and Burma, the Viet Minh Communist forces of Ho Chi Minh will be in a position to strengthen the anti-government forces in Burma...
...late, Arthur Horner has been overworked and ill. His doctor, a die-hard Tory, ordered absolute rest; the coal miners' union generously offered to pay for a long spring vacation, his first in 15 years. Last week Li'l Arthur announced that he'd get well in a nice quiet rest home in the Soviet Union. This would "demonstrate my faith in Soviet medicine...
...Soviet medicine before returning to Paris, an aging invalid (TIME, April 20). "They'll probably give me electrical treatment and sulphur bath . . . I'll just put myself in the hands of their doctors. I'll go on the bill of the Russian miners, I suppose," Li'l Arthur said. "I'll see you [in five weeks] . . . and you won't know...