Word: tun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeed Premier Saw, arrested by the British last fortnight for dickering with the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 26), the British Governor of Burma last week picked robust, midde-aged, cheroot-smoking Sir Paw Tun, formerly Premier Saw's Minister of Lands & Revenue...
English-trained as a barrister, Sir Paw Tun went back to Burma via the U.S. 20 years ago, fell in love at first sight with an American blonde, married her. He and Lady Paw Tun live in a mansion opposite Rangoon's City Hall, have two sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than...
Last week pubs and restaurants were crowded to capacity; foresighted people went early or made reservations. Social events included two lectures, "The Georgian Country Home" and "Six Centuries of Tun Huang." The Michaelmas term divorce list hit 2,000. Two million women had been registered, but only 575,463 interviewed, for war work. Parents had reclaimed 190,000 evacuated children. Fire watching was a nationwide must, but in some areas appeals for exemption ranged up to 90%. Air Marshal Portal traded his Humber for a big, black Packard...