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...immediate cease-fire in Indo-China; 2) indefinite suspension of H-bomb tests; 3) a vote of censure against "colonialism." Nehru expected some opposition at Colombo from Pakistan's young (45), pro-American Prime Minister Mohammed Ali. But he counted on support from Burma's Thakin Nu, Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo and Ceylon's Sir John Kotalawala. All of them had recognized Red China, were trading freely with it, and had often let Nehru speak for them in the past...
...surprise. Ceylon's Kotalawala supported Ali. Indonesia's Sastroamidjojo, who rules back home with Red support, took his stand to the left of Nehru and stayed there for the rest of the conference. But then came another surprise: Burma's young (47), soft-spoken Nu, a longtime Nehru man, came out hard against the Nehru plan: the plan would create a vacuum; the Communists might take over Indo-China-and Burma was the next nation but one (Siam) away. The Prime Ministers approved Nehru's appeal for a ceasefire, and his suggestion that France must guarantee...
Into the residence of Burma's Prime Minister Thakin Nu last week walked an American construction engineer with a plan to remake Burma. The engineer was ex-Colonel H. B. Pettit of Warrenton, Va., manager of southeast Asia for Manhattan's Knappen-Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy, an engineering firm that is now planning and designing foreign-building projects in more countries (15) than any other U.S. firm. Two years ago Burma used $2,000,000 of Point Four aid plus $1,000,000 of its own to hire the engineers to study the Burmese economy and draft ways...
...clarified William Shakespeare's manuscripts, making archaic words intelligible to the ordinary reader. But the bard's most dedicated fans want their Shakespeare straight. One such was Herbert Farjeon, a British amateur scholar whose special dread was the day when Shakespeare would be read in "Nu Spelin and Nu Punctuashun." In 1933 he brought out not only the handsomest but the best-edited Shakespeare in existence...
...series of lectures on 1) courage, 2) systematic-mindedness, 3) noble character, 4) honesty, and 5) perseverance. He needs no introduction: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People has long been a bestseller in Burma; its translator is none other than Prime Minister U Nu...