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Since this article was written, Thakin No, U Tin Tut, Bo Let Ya and other Burmese ministers have resigned. Potter, knows Burma well, and in a personal memo he says:-
not the best perzon to comment on Burma today
GE, Coo
"Perhaps I am many of my friends lie dead in
Jungles
rice fields or country.
dark
remember the men who
fought at Kohima's bitter battle which led to the. recapture of Burma. Life was no fairy story for them, I remember the little sign which commemorates the dead of that battle and its simple inspired versu which says ARGENTIN
"When you to home tell them of und
and say,
For your lommorrow. We gave our today?": "Tomorrow is now here and it is my melancholy duty to report that these. brave men died in vala' for^ tn' emiptų
victory,"
RANGOON, July 2
BURMA today is a fairy story peopled by. characters with a child's story book names, but it can only have an unhappy..ending for, this country.
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1948.
GOES BACK TO THE SCENE OF HIS WÄR SERVICE TO FELL THE NEW BURMA STORY
This all began
when we feted
those gangsters
clerks, country school school- masters who read Karl Marx in the shade 'of a banyan tree during the Japanese occupa- tion.
Because he is believed to be pro-British he spent the war with the British Government in Simla Instead of Tokyo—he may not last long.
Ko Kan
WIRY, wistful little man, with a child's story – book name of Bo Ko Kun, is the 43- year-old Minister of Education -also hond of the Volunteer Organisation.
People's
Burma has always had an unreal qualitý, which is perhaps typified by U Saw, former Premier, who bought his clothes in Savile-·.· row and drank a pint of monkey's" blood every day be- average alant-eyed Burmese, to be a soldier. He decided to morning last year the world have a large cache of arms,
cause he thought it gave him strength.
They hanged him the other
of seven Cabinet Ministers.
BLANCHARD day for his part in the murder
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW; "WHERE THERE'S LIFE!"
When I first arrived in Ran- goon, three years almost to the day since I left, it was hard to recognise that Burma had changed.
8 MONTHS BACK: Two Primo Ministers, Thakin Nu and Me Attloo, put the seal on free Burma,
with his pink skirt and blue and treat with the British. yellow umbrella, is fascinated .... by Russian Communism.
To ace how it happened you must go back long before Burtna was granted indepen dence six months ago.
The murder rate in Rangoon had always been the highest in the world, and one Friday
realised it. Men with machine guns rushed into the Secretariat In Rangoon and shot down Aung San and six of his Minis ters.
+
massacro.
..
This is the remnant of Aung San's Freedom Army, and it is a most dangerous and unpredictable forca in Burma politics. They are a largely pensant army 200,000 strong. owing allegiance to no one; they goosestep through the villages.
and
Vague, wispy Bo Ko Kun, their leader, may ono day play Red Riding Hood to the two wolves lurking in the jungle,
DE
An emissary was snuggled to India and then at Toungoo, 100 miles from Rangoon, Aung San and some of his officers made
"One of them is the most significant their way through the lines to It was said this
man in Burma-stocky, moon-faced,
Не 13-year old The in Thần Tan the British troops. They were was the result of a personal ir in the classic Communist mould treated like ambassadors and feud by, ousted politicians. It of Dimitrov and Anna Pauker, and Remember the country was flown to Kandy, where they met was for this they hanged U he will probably be the first com twice fought over and many of Mountbatten.
Spw. Some said the Commu- munist dictator of Burma. the villages with their stilted
nists had a hand in it. What- He is one of the 30 "heroes" who wooden houses have been scar- Breeding ground
His Burma experts told him ever the cause, the Burmese went to Tokyo and came back red and scorched by war. While of Aung San's background, but Government ever since
Chief of Staff of the Freedom Army. the British were polsed pre- with one of his lightning deci- nssassinations
He is also the brother-in-law of the THERE were still the stroll- carlously on the border build- sions Mountbatten decided to Cabinet in a barbed wire con-
has been murdered Premier, Aung San He ing peacocks, sprightly ing up armies to reconquer the use him to the fullest
was one of the men whom Mount- bamboo, flower-decked girls country, strange, significant That decision in a white bunga-
extent. centration camp.
batten feted. smoking long green cheroots events were happening.
low in Ceylon played a big part Burma from these cages? First, Who are the mon who rule and walking with wooden-faced
in changing the history of Asia.
U Tin Tut, 53-year-old Foreign Minister, an old Dulwich boy Murder
and former Cambridge Rugger on his head.. player. He is the last stabilis-
men.
Thirty extreme nationalist "Even the bomb craters had" students had gone to Tokyo, to not been-filled and I am suro bé trained as officers by the the streets had not been swept Japanese. They came back to since the Japanese left. Yet form the Burma Freedom Army
the
when over, as a fanatical Communist, and His own people knew him, how-
he organised a paralysing strike in Rangoon he fell out with jungle with a price of 5,000 rupees the Government and fled into the
Now
this will probably be the first of Burmesó to fight the British NG, man Aung San was ing figure in an Administration Robin Hood with a hundred of his
he lives like a Burmese and followers deep in the jungle. Every Com- day parties of them go out to dis- tribute, pamphlets. or loot villages unfriendly to the Communists,
country in Asia to go complete-
made chief of the Burmese which is veering more Their lender was. Major- State. But Burma, ly Communist.....
more quickly towards General Aung San, a Rangoon beautiful land of sudden death, cruel,
munism. Political Ideas grow fast in University student before he could not continue peacefully unswept streets, and today.the was trained by the Japanese under his rule..
Most of his fchów Cabinet Ministers
are
ex-students, `n Burma-born Indian called Ghoshal, The second wolf is his lieutenant, Moscow-trained, who is a 'will-o'- the-wisp: Everyone fears him, and thera aro many wishful bazan stories that he li.dead..
OCCUPATION OF GERMANY: THE
MONDAY
-June 28, 1940
RANKFORT'S 'shop win-
dows are crammed with pots and pans, radio.
BEGINNING OF THE END?
from the centre of
sets and women's luxury hand- the U.S. zone in bags.
The Germans have never seen anything like this since the great days of 1040, when the Wehrmacht looted Europe.
For the past three years they could buy these things only for fantastic black market prices. But now nobody can buy them, because there is no 'money. Most Frank forters have little more than the 40 new Deutsche marks they got over a week ago in the first cur- rency conversion..
I pay a visit to the Britch NÁAFI St George's Club, where friends usk the same old question: "Have you any dollars to spare, old boy?"
Germany .... by CHARLES WIGHTON
TUESDAY.
THOUSANDS of
The military governors are plan- ning tomorrow's big conference with the Germans.
FRIDAY
HAVE scarcely slept all night.
There is no doubt that he is Than Tun's link with the Kremlin. These two men are in touch with Chinest Communists. over the border,
and they are making strong overtures to the politically rudderless 200,000 of the People's. Volunteer Organisation
mea
Than Tun is waiting until Prime Minister Thakin, Nu's Cabinet, most- ly composed of extreme Leftists and dangling like a ripe plum, falls into
For the first time since the end Every few minutes Frankfort has his lap.
of the war, representatives of the three Western Allies will meet West Germany's 11 Premiers to plan Europe's newest State, the Western Reich.
THURSDAY'
stop
BIG day A
been wakened by the roar of four powerful aircraft engines
as yot another of General Clay's Sky- masters heads east for Berlin's
*Only playing '
AVEN the highest men here are
Planes of "Task Force Berlin." E political babes in the wood summoned from Alaska, Hawall,
British... Americans. tary airfield is also red
Germans, I jostled air trans
Juxurious Berlin.
seem
to have
most
the Caribbean, and Eastern United playing out their fairy tale with no States, Germans
are coming into Frankfort's den what Communism will mean to and stare at a huge black 50h.p.
for the Germanis,❤ vast Bhine-Main Airport almost this rich country of rice and rubles. Shortly before armour-plated Mercedes
11330,
hourly. with through Frankfort.
tearing crowds
Nearby Wiesbaden'a mill- When it comes they will say they of
did not mean it and they were only Koenig, French Military Governor, Into the 1.G. Farben's
General Pierre French, and
with transports to feed
playing. with an American military police conference room.
Within an hour of completing the
Sitting glumly in the stalls, watch- Jeep escort, has arrived from his
But the 11 rather shabby middle- Transatlantic flight, the C.64 Skying the fantasy being played to its Baden-Baden headquarters to meet aged Germana facing the three his British and American colleagues, military governors
masters take off again with seven bewildered community in Asia, the
tragic conclusion, are the tons of food. Generals Robertson and Clay, ittle sense of history. The Ger-
General Clay, one of America's Britain has £100,000,000 invested In British businessmen in Burma. The British dollar bunt in Frank-
The Germans
man Prime Ministers nod and seem greatest military supply experts, is Burma remember theso. great
and fort never stops.
Mercedes the half asleep as General Ciny's sharp sure he can beat the blockade. "So
has black
lent With the hard-
another io-get blue dollar scrip you can
American voice three-point star
£100,000,000 to rebuild the as Berlin's food is concerned,"
war- on the radiator.
voice raps out plans for buy almost anything-oven a shiny last raded through Frankfort from Hitler sat hidden in one when he
scarred country, a new German parliament.
he said to me, "we will supply it General Sir Brian Robertson's all by air, and we will make an
Before the Japanese invasion six British firms controlled most Burma's trade. Now the burra. pohibs of these businesses sit behind bamboo
in dusty,
half- wrecked offices, doodling on blotters.
for
new American car if you can raise his Ardennes offensive headquarters soft British voice lulls the further. cffort to supply the coal in Sky-
2,000 dollars,
G.I. wives shopping in the Com missary (the "American family food store) make the British housewives crazy with envy.
a
vay
Mer Ho "collects"
at Bad Neubelra, a few miles away. The club is the headquarters of Frankfort's austerity-living British But General Koenig is colony, surrounded by Manhattan- cedos connoisseur. like dollar plenty.
the super-Mercedes of the former Nazl big-shots.. Now he has at least three, including one which formerly belonged to the Nuremberg war criminal and ex-London' ambasşa- The British women, conspicuous dor, Buron von Neuroth, In the midst of thousands of American "new looks, go from counter to counter. They spand the 20 dollars a month permitted their husbands as British officials herer
man,
and
I
SATURDAY
screens
in masters, too. Only when General Koenig, clipped French, rattles out the atringent terms
of 0 proposed Occupation Statue, do the Ger- green baize table at the French-DRIVING north of Frankfort, mans wake up-to scowl across the
through the Taunus, valleys,
A tragedy my driver hns to stop the car when As the German Premiers their advisers stride down the cor-
suffer savere stomach pains.
THERE' is an agreement which ridors angrily, some of them dis- to drive to a German hospital.
Heinz is so alarmed that he wants
Lays that Britons,will be paid cuss what they call the last "Frank-
full compensation and the Burmese furter
Diktat."
Finally, he takes me to a Gor- protest constantly in official state- But the more sober Germans, on temporarily cases the pain. I reach nothing has been achieved except:
doctor in Marburg. who ments that this will be done. But their
way to an excellent three- Herford after a most uncomfortable airy promises. courso lunch
provided by the THE three-military governors, are kindly Americans, tell me "At journey. Mra Frankforter Briton gets few meeting a Europe's biggest least it is the beginning of the end extras to supplement her. British business block, the former offices of of the occupation.. It is a basis for Army rations. But with her fow Hitler's German Dya Trust,
Sur negotiations dollars aho can buy, what no other rounded by: Frankfort's ruins, the Most of the 11 Premiers, almost British wifd in Germany' can det huge headquarters of the 1.C. equally divided between "Torles" fresh milk, brought every day in Farben international cartel-almost and "Socialists, wonder how ther a special train all the way from as big no London's Dolphin-square can persuade their, provincial Par- food in Frankfort cannot be Denmark,
Kawas 'nover" bbinbed.
llaments to accept the terms,
NANCY Down-to-Earth Project
TH' KIDS AT DIS
PRIVATE SCHOOL ARE
AN AWFUL BUNCH
OF SNOBS
WEDNESDAY)
THEY ALL WALK
AROUND WITH THEIR NOSES UP
IN THE AIR
man
SUNDAY
N bed with food poisoning. My
driver likewise. So apparent by some of that American canned
good after all.
By Ernio Bushmiller
DAT, OUGHTA- CURE THEM
GO
The
only. Orm which is going ahead with a plan is the £48,000,000 Burmah Oil Company, the biggest, firm in the tountry, which expects after repairing ruined plant to be at full working capacity, by 1951,
The story a tragedy for the sahibs, and for me it is the saddest. tale I have had to write..
-ERNIE”
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