To 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 his fingers.