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Burma's gentle, shrewd Premier U Nu, who has been touring the world's capitals from Peking to Washington like a kind of international comparison shopper, faced newsmen on his own home ground last week and reported a neutralist's findings...
...wish to protest against your picture of the Burmese Prime Minister's backstage visit to Kismet [July 4]. Although it is quite obvious that U Nu knew what he was doing, a family newsmagazine is hardly the proper place for this bust-by-jowl juxtaposition of the traditionally quiet Eastern dress and the pseudo-Eastern undress...
...Nu is a pious man, no sophist, of simple origin and sympathies, no snob; he is neutral by dint of his small country's powerlessness, but his political ideology is that of the West. "Burma and America are in the same boat-we fight the same evils," he once declared. And although he was awed and impressed by Red China during his recent visit to Peking, U Nu did not shrink from publicly proclaiming to Mao: "Americans are a very generous and brave people...
Addressing the Senate and the House of Representatives last week. U Nu developed his theme of friendly neutrality, recalling that Burma and the U.S. were both ex-colonies of Britain, "Both had to struggle to win our rights for self-government." He is trying to lead Burma, said U Nu, by following the U.S. example and working its salvation "by methods of democracy...
...Elevators Ready." In Washington, U Nu made summer headlines in unexpected ways. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson invited him to the Department of Agriculture and Benson's aides kept U Nu waiting too long (five minutes) for U Nu. "Tell them we'll see them some other time," politely said U Nu, and walked out. Gasped a State Department man, "If it had happened here, everyone in protocol would have been fired by now." Secretary Benson made an adroit recovery, speeding over to Blair House to apologize to U Nu, taking Mrs. Benson along. She was glad the incident...