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...latest such distinguished visitor was Burma's mild, shrewd little Premier U Nu. Mao Tse-tung's China gave him the regular bear-hug welcome, and was aggrieved to find its guest full of gentle remonstrances...
...Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, the devout Buddhist head of an overwhelm ingly Buddhist nation (TIME, Aug. 30), laid the cornerstone of a Student Chris tian Foundation building at Rangoon University. U Nu presented his hosts with a check for 5,000 kyats ($1,042), urged Burma's more than 18 million Buddhists and 600,000 Christians to do their "utmost to preserve religious tolerance...
...will gradually do away with that evil in the mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there by that time) in the hope of seeing Ho Chi Minh...
TIME, Aug. 30 and Artist Giro are to be congratulated most sincerely on the remarkably expressive portrait of Burma's U Nu-a message of calm intelligence from the East to the West...
...Burma hand (jg), I am sending you a rousing "Thadu!"*for your excellent story on Premier U Nu . . . That TIME is the first major publication to recognize the unique significance of Burma in Southeast Asia and U Nu's great potentiality as a leader of Asian opinion to counteract the shilly-shallying of Pandit Nehru is not surprising, but it is extremely gratifying. It was my privilege to adapt the Prime Minister's play [The People Win Through] as a motion picture and to produce the film in Burma . . . Its thesis, a dramatic explanation and affirmation...