Word: aung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attlee had acted under pressure. A month ago Burma's youthful (31) nationalist leader, Aung San, had presented the British with a demand to quit Burma by Jan. 31, 1947. If the deadline were not met, Aung San had threatened, it would be time for "extralegal methods." Aung San, whose Anti-Fascist People's Freedom . League is expected to sweep the elections, will undoubtedly head the delegation to London...
...males, 17% for females). Yet this fall, as Governor Sir Hubert Ranee tried hard to set up a native government, the Burmese broke out in a rash of major strikes and riots. Disturbances crystallized last month into violently opposed factions, one led by a former Japanese puppet, U Aung San, the other by a self-styled Communist, U Than Tun. These two young (31) men have similar political and personal backgrounds; in fact, they married sisters. Last month in Rangoon, Communist Than Tun told a TIME correspondent: "Aung San and I are not on speaking terms any more. And neither...
More & more people were drifting into banditry and into U Aung San's nationalist, loud, leftist Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League. Last week, Aung San paraded through Rangoon in a jeep, waving a red flag, while thousands of ragged Burmans shouted: "Down with the Government!" Few Burmans really wanted violence, but a British officer estimated that there were enough weapons hidden in the country for a "long and bloody struggle." The crucial factor would be the size of next November's rice crop. Now Burmans chanted an old verse with new, ominous meaning...
Clearly, Sir Henry meant Burma's powerful nationalist movement, whose leader, youthful (31) U Aung San, has vehemently denied any connection with dacoity. Aung San (whose thousands of turbulent followers like to call themselves the "Irish of the Far East") had once collaborated with the Japanese and later, when the war's tide was turning, went over to the Allies. As the hope of independence grew in neighboring India, Aung San's demands for Burmese freedom have become more threatening. With Sir Henry Knight in Rangoon, however, Aung San might think twice before acting. In India...
...British needed an antidote for Aung San. U Saw was a possibility. He was, after all, a devil the Raj knew well...