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Hindustan Times Tuesday, August 16, 2005
[Glossary
for the old-fashioned: Netaji = Subhas Chandra
Bose; Kolkata = Calcutta]  Britain
ordered Netaji's killing: Irish Historian
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 KOLKATA: An Irish World War-II
historian has claimed to have come across
classified British documents that suggest Britain
ordered the assassination of Netaji Subash
Chandra Bose (right) in 1941. Eunan O'Halpin, a professor at the
Trinity College, Dublin, said he came across
classified documents of Britain's Special
Operations Executive in archives
in Turkey. Speaking at a weekend seminar in Kolkata,
O'Halpin said the documents contained the order
from London to SOE's Turkish and Egyptian units to
"liquidate" Netaji. The assassination was ordered on March 7, 1941
when the British authorities thought that Netaji
was on his way to Germany through Iran, Iraq and
Turkey after fleeing house arrest in Kolkata in
January the same year. British agents gathered this information by
tapping Italian wire transmissions. But Netaji eventually reached Germany through
Russia on April 2, giving the slip to the British
agents. These new documents have been handed to the
Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata. O'Halpin said the assassination order proved how
much trouble Netaji meant for the British colonial
rulers. 
David Irving comments:
We also tried to
assassinate that Burmese prime minister with the
strange name, U Saw, after we learned he was
flirting with the Japanese; missed him -- he had
just visited Winston Churchill at Chequers
(but hanged him all the same in 1945). Bose also
had a very full talk with Hitler, but the
transcript of that is "lost." See Churchill's
War, vol.ii. -- Ah, the forbidden fruits of
Empire. In 1978 a Mihnir Bose of Calcutta
wrote to me that he was writing a biography of
Subhas Chandra Bose for Quartet, of London; I don't
know what came of his task.
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