Lost Footsteps
Lost Footsteps

Ernest Bevin

General Ne Win in UK 1949

This photograph, taken in July 1949, shows General Ne Win (far left) at the Foreign Office in London together with U Hla Maung (then Burmese Ambassador to Thailand), Bo Setkya, and Burmese Ambassador to the UK, U Ohn ("San Shay"), who translated for General Ne Win. They were there to meet British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as part of a week-long visit. General Ne Win then went on to Washington.  In 1949, General Ne Win was Deputy Prime Minister as...

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