ABSTRACT
When Burma was under Japanese occupation from 1942 to 1945, a puppet government was established under Dr. Ba Maw as prime minister. While serving briefly as foreign minister in Ba Maw's puppet government, he organized an anti-Japanese guerrilla movement. By this time the extent of Japanese perfidy in regard to the future of Burma was widely manifest, and a Burmese resistance movement had already started, almost from the very first days of the Japanese occupation. The Japanese ambassador had called on him twice: once upon his arrival in Burma, and only once more since then. At his first press conference he discommoded his audience of Japanese reporters by saying something like this: Burma and Japan are geographically far apart. It is not enough for the Japanese to proclaim 'We're on the side of the Burmans.' Some of the ministers followed Thakin Nu's example and accompanied Dr. Ba Maw to Mudon, a small town near Moulmein.
