Notes
1 Aung San, Burma’s Challenge, in J. Silverstein (ed.), The Political Legacy of Aung San, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, Data Paper 86, Ithaca, NY, 1972, p. 55.
2 Aung San, letters to Tin Aung c. 1935, extracts quoted in Tin Aung, ‘My Recollections of Bogyoke Aung San’, Guardian (Rangoon), August 1971, p. 15.
3 Aung San, Burma’s Challenge, pp. 45–6.
4 Ibid., p. 46.
5 Izumiya Tatsuro, The Minami Organ, trans. Tun Aung Chain, Rangoon, 1981, p. 26.
6 Keiji Suzuki, ‘Aung San and the Burma Independence Army’, in Maung Maung (ed.), Aung San of Burma, The Hague, 1962, p. 58.
7 Aung San, Burma’s Challenge, pp. 46–7.
8 Maung Maung, ‘Aung San’s Helpmate’, in Maung Maung (ed.), Aung San of Burma, p. 117.
9 Papers of Eric Battersby, extract quoted in Maurice Collis, Last and First in Burma, 1941–1948, London, 1956, p. 205.
10 Aung San, ‘Blue-Print for Burma’, in Silverstein (ed.), The Political Legacy of Aung San, p. 14.
11 Sir William Slim, Defeat into Victory, London, 1956, p. 519.
12 Let Ya, ‘The March to National Leadership’, in Maung Maung (ed.) Aung San of Burma, p. 52. See also Thein Pe, ‘A Note from My Diary’, ibid., pp. 85–6.
13 Aung San, ‘Statement of General Aung San, Commander, PVO, May 8, 1946’, in Silverstein (ed.), The Political Legacy of Aung San, p. 30.
14 Aung San, speech delivered at the protest meeting against the White Paper, 29 September 1946, in Bogyoke Aung San Meigun Mya (‘The Speeches of Bogyoke Aung San’), Rangoon, 1971, p. 140.
15 Aung San, speeches delivered to explain why the communists had to be expelled from the AFPFL, 20 and 28 October 1946, in Bogyoke Aung San Meigun Mya, pp. 142–59. Thein Pe, quoted in ‘Burmese Communists Bid for Success in General Elections’, New Times of Burma, 30 October 1946.
16 Quoted in Maung Maung (ed.), Aung San of Burma, pp. 104–5.
17 Tin Tut, ‘U Aung San of Burma: A Memoir’, Burma Review, 25 August 1947, p. 12.
18 ‘The Panglong Agreement’, reproduced in Maung Maung, Burma’s Constitution, The Hague, 1961, Appendix III, p. 229.
19 Tin Tut, ‘U Aung San of Burma’, p. 12.
20 F. S. V. Donnison, ‘Unifier of Burma’, in Maung Maung (ed.), Aung San of Burma, p. 148.
21 Frank N. Trager, Burma – from Kingdom to Republic, New York, 1966, p. 89.
22 Kyaw Nyein, ‘He Made a Dream Come True’, in Maung Maung (ed.), Aung San of Burma, p. 146.