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U. Nu
Jan. 27    
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been painted only by Matisse

Before & after dinner I worked on the drawing & completed it. It is successful, I think, & a fine likeness. I want to take it with me tomorrow & show it to the Minister - so that he will not feel that his time had been wasted & further more, to gain his confidence so that he will give me the necessary time I may need for the portrait.

After 10.30 - Max Lerner came in to say goodbye & to tell us of this evening's dinner with U. Nu - who has presented him with a lovely Ivory figure of a Burmese dancing girl. Max seems to have made a very fine impression here & was happy.



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U. Nu.
Friday, Jan. 28'  
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Papa will be proud when I write him of it - Mama would have been, too. The situation was unusual when one thinks that here in Rangoon, an important frontier in world politics - a Jew, who is practically directing the policy of the country was talking with the Prime Minister while his sister, at the same time, was painting him.

AM.
9.30  Saw U Nu & met U Htin Gyi, editor of Sapay beikmon magazine of the Burma Translation Society, who took photos of U Nu for me to use for my portrait. (They will be ready on Monday -) He also asked questions about abstract art - & we had a little conversation till 10 o'clock when Louis came & I was ready to leave.  U Nu asked me again 'what did I see