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| | TIME.com: Freedom in a Frame -- Aug. 16, 1943 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. |
 | | It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political and economic cooperation in the prosecution of the Greater East Asia war. |
 | | Ba Maw declared war on the U.S. and Britain. |
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