In August 1917, Lord Edwin S. Montagu, Secretary of State for India, wrote a provocative memorandum to the British Cabinet, warning, as the only Jew in cabinet, of “the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government” that had just committed the UK to a Jewish “national home” in Palestine. ...…

The book, What Happened in Burma, was written in English by Burmese politician and writer U Thein Pein Myint, a colleague of Myanmar’s independence hero Gen. Aung San, and was published in India. . The book details the oppressiveness of Japanese rule in Myanmar, beginning with the..…