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Born in Bengal of an Anglo-Indian family, Orwell was a scholarship student at Eton (where he "learned as nearly as possible nothing"), served for five years in Burma as a member of the Indian Imperial Police, fought and was severely wounded in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the P.O.U.M. militia (the loose organization of anti-Stalinist leftists which was fiercely attacked by the Communists...
Reason & Unreason. Between Indonesians and Dutch, the British muddled. (Technically they were present in the Indies to accept the Jap surrender and to keep order during the process.) With India, Burma and Malaya in the back of their minds, they trod warily, favoring neither full native autonomy nor a return to prewar colonialism. "If the Dutch make a reasonable offer," said a British spokesman, "the rest depends on the Indonesians. We can only satisfy reason; then we must deal with unreason." Significantly he added: "If matters come to the use of force by the Dutch, world opinion will not stand...
...clambered out of a truck, they were properly bewildered. They didn't know exactly where they were, or why. They only knew that they had volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty. They did not know that some of them would soon be guerrilla leaders in the Burma jungles, social scientists in London, bridge dynamiters or underground agents in some enemy-occupied city. This comfortable country estate, some 40 minutes out of Washington in the gently rolling Virginia hills, did not look hazardous. The 18 men did not know that it was the Office of Strategic Services' Station...
Falling Reservoir. Indonesia was an embarrassment to Britain in her own Asiatic sphere. If Premier Sjahrir's Government were recognized, repercussions would be felt in India, Burma, Malaya. On the other hand, so long as Indonesia remained unsettled, other pressing imperial problems-dangerous rice shortages, a crippling lack of transport, labor unrest-would be sharpened...
...Japanese capital was used to set up opium shops and dens. In large part it financed both the Japanese Army and Chinese puppet regimes. Every phase of the traffic was regulated and taxed. From the Chinese hub, it radiated to all corners of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere": in Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, too, the number of addicts multiplied...