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...wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent his regrets: recently he had fallen asleep during an investiture at Government House...
...came Victoria town, two airfields, 4,000 Japanese bombs, rubber and coconut plantations. Stronger groups pounced on the thumb of land that poked up into the bay from the mainland -and on its satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built on stilts over mud flats. Natives call it Daru'l Salam-Abode of Peace-and it showed little fight...
...Geren, Tun Shein and I. with Ko Nyunt and a Chinese college boy. Low Wang, and twelve nurses started off for Pyinmana. We got to Case's [Baptist Missionary Bray ton C. Case, founder of an agricultural school at Pyinmana] place while he was away late at night. The Friends' Ambulance Unit arrived almost immediately and while they went off for casualties we set up. They got back after we had managed to get two hours' sleep and from then on we worked steadily, with only two hours' rest, for 36 hours. Case moved...
...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...