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90. Stokes to Jessie Muirhead, 24 June 1945, Stokes Papers, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.
91. Patrick French, Liberty or death: India’s journey to independence and division (London, 1997), pp. 222–3.
92. Dash Diaries, February 1946, Mss Eur C188/6, f. 74, OIOC.
93. Sir Arthur Dash, Bengal Diary, vol. 9, p. 67, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge. This is an extended version of the contemporary diary in the India Office Collection.
94. Intelligence Report, 26 January, 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
95. Report by Thakin Than Tun on AFPFL Congress, 17–23 January 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
96. See, e.g., Karen Memorial presented by H. Stevenson and T. L. Hughes, 2 February 1946, in Hugh Tinker (ed.), Burma: the struggle for independence 1944–48, vol. I: From military occupation to civil government, 1 January 1944 to 31 August 1946 (London, 1983), pp. 650–2.
97. Dorman-Smith, memoir, Mss Eur E215/32b, f. 272, OIOC.
98. Dorman-Smith to David Monteath, 5 April 1946, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/72, OIOC.
99. S. K. Chettur, Malayan adventure (Mangalore, 1948), pp. 84–5.
100. F. V. Duckworth, ‘The visit of Pandit Nehru to Malaya, 18 March to 26 March 1946’, 4 April 1946, CO717/149/8, TNA.
101. Chettur, Malayan adventure, pp. 78–80.
102. Tamil Nesan, 22 June 1946; Jananayakam, 24 June 1946.
103. L. F. Pendred, Director of Intelligence, ‘The visit of Pandit Nehru to Malaya’, 30 March 1946, CO717/149/8, TNA.
104. Saravanamuttu, The Sara saga, pp. 133–4.
105. Cabinet meeting, London, 13 March 1946, in Tinker, Burma, vol. I, p. 686.
106. Note on political matters by Major E. G. Robertson, 25 August 1946, Clague Papers, Mss Eur E252/54, OIOC.
107. Dorman-Smith to Pethick-Lawrence, 6 January 1946, Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss Eur E215/10, OIOC.
108. Dorman-Smith to Pethick-Lawrence, 22 January 1946, ibid.
109. Dorman-Smith to Pethick-Lawrence, 6 and 22 January 1946, ibid.
110. ‘Ralph Michaelis’s Independent Newsletter Reports from Burma’, 13 December 1945, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/72, f. 41, OIOC.
111. The fullest discussion of this whole incident from both the British and Aung San’s side can be found in the papers of Sir Hubert Rance, ‘Prosecution of Aung San’, Mss Eur F169/1, OIOC. This is essentially Dorman-Smith’s file, with a note by Sir Henry Knight passed on to Rance.
112. Reynolds News, 24 March 1946, cited in Angelene Naw, Aung San and the struggle for Burmese independence (Coperhagen, 2001), p. 238, n. 72.
113. B. Fase to Tom Driberg, 9 March 1946, Tom Driberg Papers, S3, 2, 25, Christ Church, Oxford.
114. Mountbatten to government of Burma, 27 March 1946, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/1, OIOC.
115. Cabinet Mission, Delhi, to Cabinet, London, 18 April 1946, L/PO/9/15, OIOC.
116. Pethick-Lawrence to Attlee, 7 April 1946, Pethick-Lawrence Papers, Box 1/72, Trinity College, Cambridge.
117. Dorman-Smith memoirs, Mss Eur E215/32b, ff. 264–6, OIOC.
118. Ibid., f. 266.
119. Government of Burma to Burma Office, 13 May 1946, ‘Prosecution of Aung San’, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/1, OIOC.
120. Ibid; also ‘Humble petition of Ma Ahma, wife of the late Abdul Raschid, residing at Paung’, M/5/102, OIOC, reproduced in Tinker, Burma, vol. I, p. 728.
121. Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss E215, 32 a/b, f. 218, OIOC.
122. GB to BO, 13 May 1946; Aung San’s rejoinder to the charges in the Legislative Council was printed in the Hanthawaddy newspaper c. 4 April 1946.
123. Ibid.
124. Naw, Aung San, p. 156, citing Hanthawaddy newspaper.
125. Appreciation by G. Appleton, 27 March 1946, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F 169/1, ‘Prosecution of Aung San’, OIOC.
126. Dorman-Smith Papers, Mss Eur E215/32, f. 64, OIOC.
127. Ibid., f. 207.
128. Report of the Tantabin Enquiry Committee (Rangoon, 1947), pp. 1–36. There is an unpaginated copy in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
129. Kyaw Win to an associate, 17 May 1946, ibid. p. 5.
130. Ibid., pp. 7–12.
131. Aung San to T. L. Hughes, 22 May 1946, M/4/2619, OIOC.