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93. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 22 July 1947, 12.45 hrs, ibid.
94. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 20 July 1947 15.25 hrs, ibid.
95. Taylor, ‘Interview with U Kyaw Nyein’.
96. G. E. Crombie to Laithwaite, 23 July 1947, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
97. Rance to Laithwaite, 29 July 1947, ibid.; in the event it was Lord Listowel, the new secretary of state, and not Cripps who visited the country.
98. Laithwaite to Rance, 6 August 1947, ibid.
99. R. E. Gibson, Govt Burma, to R. E. McGuire, Burma Office, 24 July 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/13, OIOC.
100. J. A. Moore’s statement, Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 28 July 1947, ibid.
101. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 28 July 1947, second telegram, ibid.
102. New Times of Burma, 28 July 1947.
103. McEnery, Epilogue in Burma, p. 112.
104. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 2 August 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/13, OIOC.
105. Maung Maung, A trial in Burma: the assassination of Aung San (The Hague, 1962), p. 27.
106. Governor of Burma to Secretary of State, 27 August 1947, Rance Papers, Mss Eur F169/13, OIOC.
107. Richard Butwell, U Nu of Burma (Stanford, 1963), p. 88.
108. See ‘Lord Listowel in Burma’, correspondence and press releases, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
109. Laithwaite to Rance, 7 November 1947, ibid.
110. Frank N. Trager, Burma from kingdom to republic (London, 1966), p. 97.
111. Sangayama Monthly Bulletin, 1, 6 October 1953, p. 10; cited in Gustaaf Houtman, Mental culture in Burmese crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (Tokyo, 1999), p. 205.
112. Rance to Laithwaite, 12 November 1947, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
113. Balwant Singh, Independence and democracy in Burma, 1945–52, the turbulent years (Ann Arbor, 1993), p. 58.
114. Rance to Laithwaite, 17 November 1947, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
115. ‘Speech to Orient Club, 27 December 1947’, Rance Papers, F169/6, OIOC.
CHAPTER 8 1947: MALAYA ON THE BRINK
1. T. A. Keenleyside, ‘Nationalist Indian attitudes towards Asia: a troublesome legacy for post-Independence Indian foreign policy’, Pacific Affairs, 55, 2 (1982), pp. 210–30.
2. For the conference, Nicholas Mansergh, ‘The Asian Conference’, International Affairs, 23, 3 (July 1947), pp. 295–306; Philip Hoalim, The Malayan Democratic Union: Singapore’s first democratic political party (Singapore, 1973), pp. 20–24. For Sjahrir’s role, Rudolf Mrázek, Sjahrir: politics and exile in Indonesia (Ithaca, 1994), pp. 334–9.
3. Abu Hanifah, Tales of a revolution: a leader of the Indonesian revolution looks back (Sydney, 1972), p. 236.
4. Mohamed Noordin Sopiee, From Malayan Union to Singapore separation: political unification in the Malaysia region, 1945–65 (Kuala Lumpur, 1974), pp. 56–71; Clive J. Christie, A modern history of Southeast Asia: decolonisation, nationalism and separatism (London, 1996), pp. 39–47. Robert Cribb and Lea Narangoa, ‘Orphans of empire: divided peoples, dilemmas of identity, and old imperial borders in East and Southeast Asia’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46, 1 (2004), pp. 164–87.
5. Alfred Lelah interview, OHD, SNA; ‘A profile of the late Mr Albert Abraham Lelah’, The Scribe [Journal of Babylonian Jewry], 70 (October 1998), http://www.dangoor.com/70012.html. For the refugees in India, Joan G. Roland, The Jewish communities of India: identity in a colonial era (New Brunswick, 1998), p. 222.
6. Jacob Ballas interview, OHD, SNA.
7. Chan Heng Chee, A sensation of independence: a political biography of David Marshall (Singapore, 1984).
8. Manicasothy Saravanamuttu, The Sara saga (Singapore, n.d. [1969]), p. 134. MSS/PIJ, May 1946.
9. Gerald de Cruz, Rojak rebel: memoirs of a Singapore maverick (Singapore, 1993), pp. 68–73.
10. Malaya Tribune, 28 November 1947.
11. Rajeswary Ampalavanar, The Indian minority and political change in Malaya, 1945–1955 (Kuala Lumpur, 1981), pp. 18–19.
12. For Thivy, Michael