. [images and captions added by this website]The Hindustan Times[Glossary for the old-fashioned: Netaji = Subhas Chandra Bose; Kolkata = Calcutta]Britain ordered Netaji’s killing: Irish Historian 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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