The Day Gen. Aung San Met Ex-Colonial Administrator and Author Maurice Collis
Gen. Aung San in Burmese dress during his visit to London (left). Maurice Collis (right)
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By Wei Yan Aung 28 January 2021
YANGON On this day in 1947 General Aung San, the architect of Myanmar’s independence, hosted a dinner for renowned British writer Maurice Collis, who had served as an administrator in colonial Myanmar (then Burma), at the Dorchester Hotel in London where he was lodging.
Gen. Aung San, nearly 32 at the time, had signed an agreement the day before with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee that granted independence for Myanmar in one year. The general said he had read all of the books written by Collis on Myanmar and expressed his admiration.