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What the situation was as of last week nobody in the Burmese government really knew, since all roads leading to the Wa States had been washed out by monsoon rains. The Burmese army estimates that the Chinese Reds have expanded their occupation forces to "a few thousand men" and now hold about 1,000 square miles of Burmese territory...
...with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks by monsoon rains (TIME, May 21). Most insulting of all, the Russians and Chinese began selling off their Burmese rice in Burma's own best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes into a barter deal when he could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience...
...answer to the festival mood, the sun was shining in unaccustomed brightness through the monsoon-clouded skies as the heavily loaded train headed into the jungle country some 50 miles north of Rangoon. As usual, a strongly armed patrol train chugged watchfully along on the track just ahead, against the possibility of Communist bandits...
Last week, as the monsoon bore in on Patiala with its drenching rains, the evacuated princes pooled their meager resources and sent four of their brothers roaring off in tandem on two motorcycles to seek help from the national government in New Delhi. "This," proclaimed young Prince Bobby Singh, "is a test of democracy! If the Maharajah can treat royalty like this, what hope can there be for the masses...
...centuries India's Damodar River, meandering 340 miles through the northwestern hills to the sea, has been known as the "River of Sorrow." A plaything of the seasons, in summer's 120° heat the river dried to a trickle in a parched gulley. But in the monsoon, it became a raging torrent, scourging the Damodar Valley with malarial, crop-destroying floods. Last week the fickle Damodar could bear a new name: the River of Promise. Across its path stood three mighty dams, shunting water into irrigation ditches that will eventually reclaim 1,026,000 acres of wasteland...