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...award is presented by the Burma Translation Society, which is headed by Prime Minister Thakin Nu. It goes to the best novel of the year, in this case On Pe's Min Hmu Dan ("The Civil Servant"), a story of the corrupt bu reaucracy run by Burmese and British officials during Britain's rule in Burma...
While Burma's devout Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
This week Thakin Nu's government announced that it had arrested and imprisoned famed Dr. Gordon S. (Burma Surgeon) Seagrave on suspicion of aiding Burmese rebels. For a quarter-century the medical missionary, born of American parents in Burma, educated at Johns Hopkins, had fought a one-man war against illness in the Burma jungles. During the Japanese war, he organized a front-line medical service for U.S., British and Chinese troops, trekked out of Burma with U.S. General Joseph Stilwell, marched back again when the Japanese were driven out. During the country's fierce postwar civil strife...
...Thakin Nu last week gave his explanation of this surprising development. Said he: "It was a gradual but definite realization by the people that peace cannot be achieved by spilling Burmese blood. There has been a wonderful spiritual revival which began when we brought the sacred Buddhist relics here from Ceylon in February and exhibited them to the people in 20 towns all over Burma...
Next day Thakin Nu announced that he would be a hermit premier, living in a thatched bamboo hut on the grounds of his residence and leaving his regime of prayer and dedication only when state affairs are most demanding...