Word: nu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quotes from the Left. Burma's Communists are the chief beneficiaries of this Karen-Burmese hatred. Burma probably has less than 10,000 convinced Communists (split into two major groups), but it has millions of ardent leftists. Prime Minister Thakin Nu himself was long a disciple of Marx, and he depends for his chief parliamentary support on the Socialists, who are militantly nationalist and anticapitalist...
...Asia. He long has been in correspondence with other Asiatic leaders. He met Mohamed Hatta, Indonesia's Premier, at an anti-imperialist rally in Brussels 20 years ago, has been writing to him ever since. He is a close friend and backer of Burma's Premier Thakin Nu...
Burma has shown governmental weakness because its democratic leadership was liquidated. India has done all it can to strengthen Thakin Nu's government...
Karen control of the Irrawaddy had cut off rice shipments from Rangoon.
The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan
($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of
chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British
Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents
Arthur M. Shercliff, resident Choate fellow, who thought up the idea, is the producer of the show. Shercliff, an Englishman, came to this country last fall. While in England, he acted in nu-numerous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including "Trial by Jury...