Saw & Tin Tut

Last week Londoners noticed a slender Oriental stalking through their streets.

The Premier of Burma, The Honorable U Saw,* was visiting the West for the first time. With him was his little Oxford-trained secretary, U Tin Tut.

The Honorable U Saw had not come as a tourist. He had flown to London four weeks ago to demand that the third clause of the Atlantic Charter (right of self-determination of nations) be applied to Burma too. Through London for a full day he had strutted in silken toga and colored skirt, silk kerchief on his head, then had switched to European garb because of London's cold. Last fortnight he saw Prime Minister Churchill, for whom he had brought a box of Burma's Kipling-famed cheroots.

The Honorable U Saw was well worth a slick buttering up which he received in the columns of the London Times, but he was unable to raise more than a tepid temperature for Britain's struggle. The Burmese are isolationists. Some Londoners, however, thought that Premier U Saw felt less isolationist after he had seen the husks of some of London's buildings. His own capital, spire-templed Rangoon, is only 700 miles from a Japanese plane base at Pnom-Penh, Indo-China.

*U means "Elder," Burmese equivalent of Mr.

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