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...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 15 years ago, Knight had crushed a local civil-disobedience campaign by summarily executing six of its leaders. *Robbery by a band of five or more...
Recently in Rangoon U Saw's wife became conspicuously active in politics. One British official disclosed that U Saw, wherever he was, had recently been allowed more freedom of movement. In New Delhi there was a rumor that U Saw might soon reappear on the Burmese political scene-with British support...
Grade Fields, bouncy British music hall favorite, decided that she had done enough (or almost enough) cartwheels to last a lifetime. "At 47, I am too old to swing my legs around," she announced to Bombay newspaper reporters. Next stop: Rangoon...
...first discussion between Britons and Burmese leaders since the recapture of Rangoon was held aboard a British warship last week. Subject: self-government for Burma. Whatever Burma's political future may be, there was one great success at the meeting-ice cream...
...India's fashionable Simla last week, Burma's governor, trim, mustachioed Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, was waiting to re-enter Rangoon. Well might he recall the words he had uttered in October 1943, after his expulsion from Burma: "Neither our word nor our intentions are trusted in that part of the globe. . . . We have fed such countries as Burma on political formulae until they are sick at the very sight and sound of a formula, which has come, as far as my experience shows, to be looked upon as a very British means of avoiding a definite course...