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137. Tregonning, ‘Tan Cheng Lock’, pp. 53–5.
138. ‘Report on the Special Conference on the threat of Communism in Malaya and Singapore, 1947’, 26 June 1947, Dalley Papers, RHO.
139. Malaya Tribune, 6 October 1947.
140. Sopiee, From Malayan Union to Singapore separation, pp. 41, 48–9.
141. For this see The People’s Constitutional Proposals for Malaya 1947 drafted by PUTERA–AMCJA.
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1. Cited in Frank N. Trager, Burma: from kingdom to republic (London, 1966), p. 108.
2. Burma’s Independence Celebrations (Copygraph London Ltd, 1948), p. 15.
3. Roy Bucher to Miss Elizabeth Bucher, 5 January 1948, Bucher Papers, 7901/87–5, National Army Museum.
4. Balwant Singh, Independence and democracy in Burma (Ann Arbor, 1993) pp. 67–8.
5. Ibid., pp. 74–5.
6. Notably, J. S. Furnivall, Netherlands India: a study of a plural economy (London, 1939), which compared British administration in Burma and Malaya unfavourably with Dutch Indonesia; see also Julie Pham, ‘Furnivall and Fabianism: reinterpreting the plural society in colonial Burma’, Modern Asian Studies, 39, 2 (2005), pp. 321–48.
7. J. S. Furnivall to C. W. Dunn, 9 April 1948, Furnivall Papers, PP/MS 23, vol. I, SOAS.
8. Furnivall to Dunn, 11 January 1948, ibid.
9. Furnivall to Dunn, 28 March 1948, ibid.
10. Furnivall in New Times of Burma, 10 April 1949.
11. Furnivall to Dunn, 11 January 1948, Furnivall Papers, PP/MS 23, vol. I, SOAS.
12. Marginal notes in FO371/61595, TNA.
13. P. J. Murray, note 20 August 1948, FO371/69518, TNA.
14. Edgar Snow in Saturday Evening Post, 29 May 1948, FO371/69515, TNA.
15. Ibid.
16. Furnivall to Dunn, 11 January 1948, Furnivall Papers, PP/MS 23, vol. I, SOAS.
17. Richard Butwell, U Nu of Burma (Standford, 1963), pp. 73–84.
18. Furnivall to Dunn, 4 July 1947, Furnivall Papers, PP/MS 23, vol. I, SOAS.
19. The estimate is in Mary Callahan, Making enemies: war and state building in Burma (Ithaca, 2004), p. 121.
20. ‘Nationalisation of British assets in Burma’, FO371/69491, TNA.
21. Security service report on communism in Burma, March 1948, FO371/69515, TNA.
22. Trager, Burma, pp. 97–8.
23. Thein Pe Myint, ‘Critique of the communist movement in Burma’, 1973, Mss Eur C498, OIOC.
24. Dossier on Thein Pe including his manifesto of 19 March, enclosed in Bowker to Foreign Office, FO371/69517, TNA.
25. Ghosal was a student labour activist at Rangoon University in 1940–1. He had been evacuated to India during the war and worked as a war correspondent for People’s War, the Indian Communist Party journal, and was a close aide of P. C. Joshi, the party’s Secretary General. He returned to Burma in 1945 and later went underground. Intelligence report, received 13 May 1948, FO371/69515, TNA.
26. ‘On the present political situation in Burma’, January 1948, enclosed in Bowker to Foreign Office, 20 July 1948, FO371/69516, TNA.
27. British Services Mission, preliminary report, 9 February 1948, p. 3, L/WS/1/1705, OIOC.
28. Note by Peter Murray, ‘Establishment of British Services Mission in Burma’, and report by Major General G. K. Bourne, 9 February 1948, FO371/69481, TNA.
29. Smith Dun, Memoirs of the four-foot Colonel: General Smith Dun, first commander in chief of independent Burma’s armed forces (Ithaca, 1980), pp. ii–vii.
30. Notes by R. B. Pearn, 26 November 1948, on minutes by Bowker and Bourne, FO371/69486, TNA.
31. British Services Mission, preliminary report, 9 February 1948, pp. 4–6, L/WS/1/1705, OIOC.
32. Rangoon to London, 15 May 1948, minute by Bourne, FO371/69482, TNA.
33. Ibid.
34. Rangoon to London, 9 April 1948, FO371/69481, TNA.
35. Peter Murray, minute, 14 September 1948, FO371/69484, TNA.
36. Furnivall to Dunn, 29 February 1948, Furnivall Papers, PP/MS 23, vol. I, SOAS.
37. ‘Effect of Communist Party advance in China on communists in Burma’, Rangoon to FO, 4 December 1948, FO371/69522, TNA.
38. Bertil Lintner, The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Burma (Ithaca, 1990), p. 11.
39. Thein Pe Myint, ‘Critique of