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That morning, the 19th. July, U Saw waited restlessly for the killers to come home. He had directed them to destroy the entire Executive Council, Bogyoke Aung San first, and Councillors all, and to include Thakin Nu, the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly, on the roll of death. After this one big clean sweep no sizeable rivals would remain on the political scene and he, U Saw, the mighty “Galon” General, would stand supreme. Once more he would rule. In 1940 he had sent his rivals to jail. Now let them go to their graves. Times were different and drastic; action must measure up to the drastic times.
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Dr. Ba U, My Burma, Taplinger, New York, 1959, p. 195.
F. S. V. Donnison, British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46, HMSO, London, 1956, p. 48.
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Maung, M. (1962). U Saw and His Men. In: A Trial in Burma. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0457-7_2
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