The Burma Patriotic Front 1st in UN Series

Lasting peace built on justice and understanding among nations. This is the objective of the United Nations. This is the first program in the United Nations series of the Pacific story. One of the five special series presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations to further world unity and world peace through understanding.

For hundreds of years the Pacific and the lands it touches have been the scene of struggle. conflict for gain and power, people against people, Western nations seeking to dominate and exploit the lands and people, and millions caught in the political and economic cross-currents.

Today with most of the world's population concentrated around and in the Pacific, the events of the Pacific are of vital world concern. The Pacific story dedicates this series to the objective of the United Nations. Lasting peace built on justice and understanding among nations. A Burma patriotic front. Politics makes strange bedfellows. In Burma

for more than half a century. The political cauldron has been seething. Down with Britain we have tolerated the power long enough. We must go to war and decide to do Japanese. Join the Japanese. Join the Japanese. Down with the Chinese.

That was the cry in Burma in 1940. Three years later it had changed. Down with the Japanese! Join the British! We have tolerated the Japanese long enough! We must go to war on the side of Britain and the Allies!

I won the Japan and the Axis! That was the cry in Burma in 1943. With all your about faces, do you Burmese know what you want? Yes. We want independence. World War II has brought the seething political cauldron in Burma to the boiling point.