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...Communist world, which had not been able to prevent this vast upheaval, at least had a duty to understand it. The triumph was not the victory of the "Uncle Mao" of Peking propaganda, the benign statesman who has charmed such outstanding humanists as Attlee, Nehru and U Nu. It was the triumph of terror...
...article contains a remark ["the man knows nothing about Buddhism"] allegedly made by Mr. Ben-Gurion on the occasion of the visit to Israel of U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma...
...reading philosophy-Spinoza, the Greeks, the Bible, the ancient Buddhist writings. It is part of his search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...
...Among recent visitors' Bulganin, Khrushchev, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Burma's U Nu. Canada's Lester Pearson, Red China's Madame...
...story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias recently drove across the isthmus and awarded him Panama's Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa-doubtless a unique honor for a saloonkeeper. Bilgray will not leave Panama now that he has retired; he intends to live out his days in Colón until...