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Five Principles, Two Protests. The Burmese could now tell, if they could not before, whom ex-Premier U Nu meant in his attack three weeks ago on unnamed "veritable sons of bitches for distant aunts" (TIME, Aug. 6). Now that the story was out in the open, the government admitted that it had quietly lodged two protests with Peking since last November; the first was brushed off, the second had gone unanswered even though, under the much-vaunted Panch Shila or Five Principles of India's Nehru, Burma and Red China had pledged to respect each other...
When a quiet man speaks forcefully, his words carry twice the weight. Fortnight ago a quiet man, Burma's ex-Premier U Nu, spoke with decided feeling: "Our main problem arises from the existence of those inside the country who have no compunction about playing the part of stooges, spies, fifth columnists and veritable sons of bitches for distant aunts...
...Rangoon audience on Burma's Martyrs' Day did not need to ask U Nu who the distant aunts were-the Communists. And though U Nu no longer leads his country's government (he resigned two months ago), he is still first in the hearts of his countrymen. The words of this leading apostle of Southeast Asia neutralism reflected his country's growing disillusionment with Communism...
...turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments 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...
...cigarette maker is either experimenting with "reconstituted" tobacco or actually using it. The new process is not only stirring the biggest technical shake-up in the industry since cigarettes; it has already greatly altered the market for raw tobacco, U.S. farmers' sixth most valuable cash crop. Predicts Nu-Way Tobacco Co.'s Jean Shepard Jr., who is making the binder for about 15 cigar makers: "Inside of two years, there won't be a cigar maker in the U.S. who doesn...