Show Magic When the words the lithe Burma Road crop up in the press it is in connection with a very grave matter of international commercial and diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic dip dip- import But the phrase it itself itself itself it- it self is sheer poetry fraught with wilh connotations of high romance It suggests strange seas and unpredictable unpredictable unpredictable winds unspeakable danger and wondrous delights Such phrases have stirred the imagination of man from time immemorial immemorial immemorial im im- memorial luring h him firm m to dreams and to adventure in far places They carry with them their own feeling their own impact upon the senses whether we can say clearly what they mean or not not not- Under not Under the Southern Cross Moon of the the The liThe Source of Nile The UThe Road to Mandalay El EI del Muerto The uThe High Sierras The Vale of Kashmir Kashmir Kashmir Kash Kash- mir The uThe Mountains of the Moon and so on for an almost endless list Such place names fascinate not only the ordinary mind but they have had an appeal to writers from Herodotus to our own Eugene ONeill O'Neill |