Foreign News: Saw & Tin Tut

Last week Londoners noticed a slender Oriental stalking through their streets.

The Premier of Burma, The Honorable U Saw,* was visiting the West for the first time. With him was his little Oxford-trained secretary, U Tin Tut.

The Honorable U Saw had not come as a tourist. He had flown to London four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of...

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