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Volume 25, No. 2 December, 1971

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FACULTY RESEARCH EDITION

of

The Savannah State College
Bulletin

Published by

The Savannah State College

Volume 25, No. 2 Savannah, Georgia December, 1971

Prince A. Jackson, Jr, President

Editorial Committee

Joan L. Gordon Willie G. Tucker

S. M. Julie Maggioni Hanes Walton

A. J. McLemORE, Chairman

Articles are presented on the authority of their writers, and neither
the Editorial Committee nor Savannah State College assumes respon-
sibility for the views expressed by contributors.

Contributors

Mr. Patrick Ireland, Biology Instructor
Savannah State College, Savannah, Georgia

Dr. Manchery P. Menon, Professor Chemistry
Savannah State College, Savannah, Georgia

Mrs. Marie W. Nelson, Education Instructor
Savannah State College, Savannah, Georgia

Dr. Hanes Walton, Jr., Associate Professor Social Sciences
Savannah State College, Savannah, Georgia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page
The Effects of Photoperiod, Temperature, and Thyroxin
on the Transformation of Laval Ambystoma annulatum
Patrick H. Ireland 5

Characterization in the Children's Books of A. A. Milne
Marie W. Nelson 13

The Negro in the Prohibition Party

A Case Study of the Tennessee Prohibition Party

Hanes Walton, Jr 23

An Inquiry Into Burma's Policy of Neutralism

Hanes Walton, Jr 35

Undergraduate Nuclear Experiments with 2iOpb.2ioBi
Equilibrium Mixture
M. P. Menon 53

THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOPERIOD, TEMPERATURE,

AND THYROXIN ON THE TRANSFORMATION

OF LARVAL

Ambystoma annulatum

Patrick H. Ireland, Department of Biology,
Savannah State College, Savannah, Georgia 31404

Introduction

The salamander, Ambystoma annulatum Cope, is endemic to
the Ozarkian highlands (Connant 1958). Partially due to this
limited range, little information concerning the biology of this
species is available (Trapp 1956), and no information dealing
with the development of the larvae has been previously
published. The purpose of this investigation was to elucidate
some of the ecological factors which initiate and regulate trans-
formation of A. annulatum larvae.

A. annulatum exhibits a pattern of reproduction typical of
Ambystomids. Adults migrate in mass during heavy rain to
specific breeding ponds. The breeding migration of A. annulatum
takes place in late September or October. The males arrive at the
breeding ponds several hours before the females. After reaching
the ponds, the males engage in an elaborate courtship with the
females and then deposit sperm packets (spermatophores) on the
floor of the pond. The females pick up the spermatophores with
the cloaceal lips and then deposit 50-250 eggs in a large mass.
Fertilization occurs as the eggs pass through the cloaca. The egg
mass is then attached to the pond substratum. The entire process
is completed within two or three days. The adults then leave the
pond in favor of the mesic forest floor. Gilled larvae emerge from
the eggs in 30 to 40 days depending on temperature. The larvae
remain in the ponds for approximately nine months and then
transform into terrestrial adults and leave the pond.

The process of transformation involves several major mor-
phological changes. The larvae lose their gills and begin to utilize
lungs. The blood vessels of the head and neck region become
rearranged as does the skeletal and integermentary systems.
Transformation involves an almost complete rearrangement of
the salamander. Three factors, temperature, photoperiod and
thyroxin, were investigated in order to determine how they af-
fected the rate at which A. annulatum larvae transform.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

THYROXIN

A total of 560 larval A. annulatum, representing all size
classes, were treated with seven different concentrations of
thyroxin (thyroid hormone). The larvae were segregated, accord-

ing to size, to reduce cannibalism and maintained in standard
culture dishes containing 400 ml of natural spring water. Five
larvae were placed in each dish. The larvae were kept at 24 C
and a 24 hour dark photoperiod. The water was changed every
two days after which thyroxin (in a basic solution) was added.
This insured that the larvae were maintained in a known
thyroxin solution at all times. Food was offered on alternate
days. Earthworms were used for food but the aggressive larvae
would eat almost any type of meat offered. This method has been
used to transform tadpoles and is described in detail by Tata
(1956). Controls were treated exactly as experimental with the
exception that no thyroxin was given. This procedure was used to
determine if the hormone thyroxin did stimulate transformation
of A. annulatum larvae and if all size classes of the larvae were
uniformly effected by the hormone.

To determine if the halogen component of thyroxin could
stimulate transformation, iodide (Nal) was given to 25 larvae.
Iodine was introduced to the water in the same concentration
that the halogen was present in the thyroxin concentrations.

TEMPERATURE

Temperature is known to affect transformation of am-
phibians (Noble 1931). Artificially induced transformations,
using thyroxin, of 270 A. annulatum larvae were carried out at
three different temperatures (5, 20, 30C) in a 24 hour dark
photoperiod. Three concentrations of thyroxin were used (0.5, and
10.0 u/100 ml water). The larvae were transformed by the
techniques previously described.

PHOTOPERIOD

The effects of photoperiod on the transformation of am-
phibian larvae are unknown. A total of 160 larval A. annulatum
were artificially transformed (5.0 u thyroxin/100 ml water) at
four different photoperiods. These transformations were conduct-
ed at 24 C. The photoperiods selected were: 24 hours dark and
24 hours light, 12 hours light and 6 hours dark, 12 hours dark and
6 hours light.

CONTROLS

All experimentals were accompanied with controls. The con-
trols were placed in standard culture dishes with 400 ml spring
water but no thyroxin was added. The controls were subjected to
the same environmental variables as the experimentals.

RECOGNITION OF TRANSFORMATION

The process of transformation was not accompanied with an
increase in total length or snout-vent length. Rapid skin shedding
and reduction of the tail fin at its most anterior point were the
first indications that the larvae was undergoing transformation.
As transformation continued, the resorption of the tail fin

progressed posteriorly, after approximately one half of the tail fin
was resorbed the gills began to disappear, the head became
narrow due to rearrangement of the gill arches, and the skin color
became darker. The first indication of resorption of the tail fin
was considered to be the beginning of transformation. Transfor-
mation was considered complete when the gills were reduced to
stubs and the salamander could survive out of water.

Results

THYROXIN

Thjo^oxin stimulates transformation of ^4. annulatum larvae
(Table 1). Within a given size class the rate of transformation
was increased by increasing the amount of thjroxin administered.
The controls did not exhibit any indications of transformation.

TEMPERATURE

Temperature affects the rate of transformation of A. an-
nulatum larvae (Table 2). Increasing the water temperature
decreased the time required for transformation to begin and
reduced the time required for complete transformation. Smaller
larvae responded differently to temperature than did larger lar-
vae (Table 2).

PHOTOPERIOD

Manipulation of photoperiods had no significant (99% con-
fidence level) effect on the rate of larval A. annulatum transfor-
mation (Table 3). In natural populations transformation can be
correlated with photoperiodicity but this is probably not due to
the photoperiod per se, but merely reflects the correlation of
photoperiod to environmental temperature and the physiological
maturation of the larvae.

Discussion

The thyroid hormone, thyroxin, initiates and regulates the
rate of transformation of ^4. annulatum larvae. An increase in the
amount of thyroxin reduced the time required for transformation
but increasing the thyroxin two fold resulted in a time decrease of
only one or two days. Doubling the thyroxin concentration did not
result in a time decrease of 50% . This suggests that the larvae
require a given amount of thyroxin to begin transformation and
the addition of more hormone above this threshold has a
relatively minor effect. Larvae of the same size class responded in
the same manner to a constant thyroxin concentration. Larvae of
different size classes responded differently to the same th3a-oxin
concentrations. Snyder (1956) demonstrated that larval A. gracile
of different year classes respond differently to identical thjo-oxin
concentrations but found no difference within larvae of the same
size class.

Two postulations may be presented, each of which would ex-
plain the varying reaction of different size classes to identical
thyroxin concentrations but none of which can be supported by
experimental data. One possibility is that the amphibian tissue
will not respond to thyroxin until it has attained a certain degree
of development. This physiological aging would require time, and
the smaller larvae would have not had sufficient time to complete
this developmental process. The tissue of the smaller larvae thus
would be less sensitive to thyroxin than the older tissue. The
second explanation is that the thyroxin artificially administered
complemented and possibly stimulated the normal production of
thyroxin by the larval thyroid gland. The larger larvae would
presumably have a larger and more active thyroid and so a
positive feedback reaction involving the thyroxin and thyroid
would thus be greater. If a positive feedback mechanism is in-
volved it would necessarily be of short duration. A long term
positive feedback reaction would eventually result in death. The
administration of thyroxin did not alter the sequence of mor-
phological changes involved in A. annulatum transformation as it
does in Rana.

The addition of iodide (Nal) did not stimulate transfor-
mation in any size class of larvae. This suggests that the halogen
component of thyroxin is not a major limiting factor in the trans-
formation of A. annulatum larvae. Iodide is known to stimulate
transformation of salamander larvae (Dundee 1957) but this ap-
parently takes place only when excessively high concentrations of
iodide are given. This study shows that the administration of
iodide in the same concentrations that it was present in thyroxin
solutions does not stimulate transformation in A. annulatum lar-
vae.

Temperature did effect the rate of transformation of A. an-
nulatum larvae (Table 2). An increase in temperature decreases
the time required for transformation to be initiated. This
relationship between transformation and temperature is probably
true for all poikilotherms (Noble 1931). Maher and Levendahl
(1959) suggested that the sensitivity of poikilotherm tissue to
thyroxin may vary with temperature. This investigation tends to
support the theory of Maher and Levendahl (1959) but does not
rule out the possibility that the actual production of^thyroxin and
not the sensitivity of tissue to thyroxin is affected by temperature.

Photoperiod affects tissue maturation and differentiation in
many animals and plants. However, the photoperiod appears to
have no effect on the process of larval A. annulatum transfor-
mation (Table 3).

Summary

The hormone thja*oxin initiates the process of transformation
and regulates the rate at which this process proceeds in larval A.
annulatum. Although iodide is essential in the biosynthesis of

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thyroxin, it does not appear to be the limiting factor in the syn-
thesis and secretion of thyroxin. Larvae of different size classes
respond differently to the administration of thyroxin. This may
be due to increased sensitivity of the older tissue to thyroxin or a
positive feedback between thyroxin and the thyroid gland. There
was a direct relationship between temperature and the rate of
transformation but photoperiod did not have an effect on trans-
formation.

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LITERATURE CITED

Connant, R. 1958. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern North

America. Houghton Miffin Co. Boston, 366p.
Dundee, H. A. 1957. Partial Metamorphosis induced in Typhlomolge Rathbuni.

Coperia 1957:52-53.
Maher, M. J. and B. H. Levendahl. 1959. The Effects of the Thyroid Gland on the

Oxidative Metabolism of the Lizard Anobis CarolineHsis. J. Exper. Zool.

140:169-189.
Noble, G. K. 1931. The Biology of the Amphibian. McGraw Hill. N. Y. 577p.
Synder, R. C. 1956. Comparative features of the life history of Ambystoma Gracile

(Baird) from populations at high and low altitudes. Copeia 1956:41-50.
Tata, J. R. 1965. Thalidomide and induced Amphibian Metamorphosis.

Nature 204: 939-940.
Trapp, Mary M. 1956. Range and Natural History of the ringed salamander Am-
bystoma annulatum (Cope). Southwestern Nat. 1:78-82.

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CHARACTERIZATION IN THE
CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF A. A. MILNE

Marie W. Nelson

Savannah State College

February 10, 1971

13

CHARACTERIZATION IN THE
CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF A. A. MILNE

In a critical study of the works of an author like A. A. Milne
there is much one could attempt to treat. Within the already
delimited scope of his works for children, many aspects of theme
and style, purpose and effectiveness clamor for attention. In my
opinion one of the most valuable attributes of Milne's work is his
characterization, especially his insights into the behavior of
children, and it is in this field that Milne achieved his greatest
success. Time Magazine, on the occasion of his death, remarked
that Milne "tried in vain to make the playwright and the novelist
keep up with the author of Winnie -the- Pooh.'" ^ Even his
autobiography, which certainly rises above the bulk of his
writings for adults, is concerned primarily with his childhood and
school days, spilling over only into the early years of adulthood.

If asked why Milne was more successful with his children's
books, I should venture this theory: for some reason Milne was
more at home when dealing with the world of the child. In fair-
ness, of course, it may be to the reader that the cause for this
must be attributed. Perhaps, by the time we reach maturity we as
readers have lost something of the light-heartedness and
flexibility which allows us to indulge the writer of light prose. He,
after all, couldn't be doing much work. Making use of his superior
talent and education, maybe, but working? This, of course, is
exactly what Milne intended us to think. Of the praise of a
respected friend he said, "E. V.'s praise helped me to give the air
of doing it all easily which is the only air to give writing of that
sort. "2

Is it then, only when we return to the world of childhood that
we allow ourselves to be wholeheartedly gay without some sense
of guilt?. . . and without imposing our own sense of guilt on the
shoulders of any author who would dare write for the sole pur-
pose of receiving pleasure and being funny? Is he right to tempt
us from the more serious and practical concerns of living? Or
could it be that Milne, too, was trapped in the same way as the
reader by cultural inhibitions to the extent that his genius was
most free when writing for children? In the introduction to his
autobiography Milne remarked that it was the childhood of a
great man that he loved to read about, not his life as a great

man

3

There is one major aspect of style in which both the poems
{When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six) and the Pooh
stories {Winnie -the -Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner) are
similar. All four depend on an impressionistic technique for the
portrayal of character, and it is in the characterization that the
dominant thematic content is found. In the Pooh stories a type of
stereotyping is used to point out, on a one-dimensional level,
many of the kinds of people we all know and recognize. One can

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almost see the ghost of Stephen Crane looking over Milne's
shoulder as he introduces and tags each of the animals. Kanga is
Motherly, Roo is "Baby Roo," Tigger is a Bouncy adolescent,
Piglet is anxious, Rabbit feels Important, and Eeyore is gloomy.
As the episodes unfold, Milne refines and elaborates each of these
traits; he does not refine or elaborate the characterization. In the
end, Tigger is still Bouncy, Kanga still Motherly, and Eeyore still
gloomy though we are now fully aware that his gloom is both
pessimistic and paranoiac in nature. Even in Milne's choice of the
animals to be Christopher Robin's friends we find further
evidence of this one-dimensional characterization. What animal
more appropriately represents motherhood than the kangaroo
who bears and protects her young for months after birth within
the shelter of her own body? Which deserves to feel more gloomy
and paranoid than the jackass?

In the poems, too, Milne utilizes this technique of charac-
terization, but he does so in a different manner. The poetry
neither attempts to display a wide range of character types nor to
contrast the differences among them. It concentrates on that
which people everywhere have in common, but it limits its scope
to the child, to the immature personality, rather than including
the total range of possibilities as do the stories. The character of
"the child" is two-dimensional. The child of the poems is not in-
dividualized, but neither does he represent only one character
type. He is a stereotype of a composite nature, including all those
traits which set apart childhood from mere personhood. The child
of the poem is, in short, that lowest common denominator of
childishness.

Only one personality, not many, emerges from these poems
despite the fact that many children walk through the pages; and
it is not only Christopher Robin, with his pets and his contem-
poraries, who contributes to the final product. The adults in the
poems serve one of two purposes. When they are incidentally
mentioned or occur in some interaction with the children, they
serve to illustrate the contrast and sometimes the conflict be-
tween "the child" and "the adult." When the adult is the center of
the poem, however, the role is consistently different. James James
Morrison Morrison's mother who disobeys her son, bad King John
who wants nothing more than an India rubber ball for Christmas,
the sulky king who slides down the banisters, and the Emperor of
Peru who boosts his ego in the face of uncertainty by repeating a
little rhyme are included by virtue of the fact that they are
supremely childish, not that they are adult. It is not Billy Moon
whom we meet in the pages of When We Were Very Young.
Neither is it Mary Jane or Emmeline or Anne. It is the composite
spirit of childhood.

There are several other ways in which the poetry and the
prose works can be contrasted. In the poems, for example, it is
Christopher Robin who is central and necessary to the presen-

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tation of theme. Some of his toys and acquaintances, such as
Pooh, the "Lords of the Nursery," and Alexander Beetle provide
situations in which he can "interact." In the stories, by contrast,
it is most definitely Pooh, Piglet, and their friends and adventures
which hold the interest of the reader and engage his indulgent
sympathy. Christopher Robin enters only to provide a focal point
to which the members of this group, with their varied interests
and occasional conflicts, are drawn, a fact well-illustrated by the
expedition to the North Pole and the party given for Pooh after he
rescued Piglet. Throughout, Christopher Robin remains the
champion-adviser-arbitrator to all members of the group. But,
though they regard him fondly, he is seldom brought into any ac-
tivity other than those he instigates himself until a Profound
Problem arises. The difference, then, is that in the Pooh stories,
except for Tigger and Roo (who, by the way are among the more
successful of the characters) the characters are adult. Rabbit,
Kanga, Eeyore, and Owl are not only adult, they are rather staid.
Of Pooh and Piglet, one is less certain. They exist somewhere be-
tween the realm of Baby Roo and that overgrown and awkward
adolescent Tigger (who, having no home and needing a mother's
firm hand, quite appropriately goes off to live with Kanga and
Roo) and the realm of the four adults.

Still, they are not children. They are simply adults of "Very
Little Brain" and of "Very Little Bravery." Even Christopher
Robin, in the stories, assumes the role of an adult in his relation-
ship to the animals. It is he on whom they call when afraid, he to
whom they go for advice, and he who has the final say in matters
of taste, judgment, and fact. In my opinion, and I do not think I
am alone, the stories are less successful than the poems; and this
is the very reason: Milne's unique skill lies in bringing alive the
world of childhood and that world is more consistently the con-
cern of the poems than it is of the prose.

Milne himself sensed that his poetry was superior to the
prose stories; the following passage from his autobiography tells
something of his feeling for these works and also indicates why he
feels the above statement to be true:

Whether I have added to technique that "wonderful
insight into a child's mind" of which publishers' adver-
tisements talk so airily, I wouldn't know. I am not inor-
dinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to
me is a physical appeal such as the young of other
animals make. I have never felt in the least sentimental
about them, or no more sentimental than one becomes
for a moment over a puppy or a kitten. In as far as I un-
derstand their minds the understanding is based on the
observation, casual enough and mostly unconscious,
which I give to people generally: on memories of my own
childhood: and on the imagination which every writer

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must bring to memory and observation. . .A pen picture
of a child which showed it as loving, grateful, and full of
thought for others would be false to the truth; but
equally false would be a picture which insisted on the
brutal egotism of the child, and ignored the physical
beauty which softens it. . .But it is possible to give what
one might call "an air of Charm," particularly when
writing in verse, to any account of a child's activities. ""^

I think one cannot help but sense, from reading this passage, that
Milne attempted to divorce himself from sentimentality, which he
defines as "merely an appeal to emotions not warranted by the
facts."'^ According to Time, Milne considered " 'whimsical' the
most 'loathsome adjective,' but it was one which he could never
escape. . .'If I write anything less realistic, less straightforward
than "the cat sat on the mat," I am called whimsical.' "^ Perhaps
it is just this devotion to proportion in the effort to paint a
realistic picture that maintains a balance so realistic in his works
that we read our own sentimentality into them.

Perhaps the most significant way in which the poems differ
thematically from the stories is as much a matter of style as of
content. It has been mentioned before that the "child" of the
poems is more highly developed than is any one of the animal
figures in the stories. As the child is central, whether in the form
of Christopher Robin, one of his friends, or some immature adult,
Milne has had sufficient opportunity to develop fully many facets
of that state we denote as "childishness." These motifs recur
throughout the two volumes: egotism, the escape from mundane
reality through the imagination, contempt for patronizing adults,
and a value system as yet unshaped by society.

What is it, if not egotism, that causes the young child to
inquire, on being taken to see Buckingham Palace, "Do you think
the king knows all about me?"'' And what is it that prompts
"James James Morrison Morrison / (Commonly known as Jim)"
to tell "his / Other relations / Not to go blaming him,'' when his
mother disappears. Of course. King John sent his condolences,
and so did the Queen and Prince.^ What makes it possible for
Emmeline, when told to go wash up for dinner, to call on the
Queen herself to make the final decision as to whether her hands
are clean or not? Milne himself, in his autobiography, states that
"in real life very young children have an artless beauty, an in-
nocent grace. . .But with this outstanding physical quality there is
a natural lack of moral quality, which expresses itself, as Nature
always insists on expressing herself, in an egotism entirely
ruthless. "

A second motif running throughout the poems and also oc-
curring in the Pooh books is the escape into the imagination to
avoid the common-place realities of the nursery, the drab rainy
day, or the monotonous concrete of the streets. In "Nursery
Chairs," the child becomes first a sea-captain going to South

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America, and then a lion in a cage. So real does his game seem
that he confuses it with reality and, sitting in his high chair, has
to "try to pretend that it's my chair, / And that I am a baby of
three. "'^ There are toys, too (Pooh), and imaginary friends
(Binker) who offer quite adequate rationalizations for wanting an
extra chocolate ("Oh, Binker wants a chocolate, so could you give
me two?' / And then I eat it for him, 'cos his teeth are rather
new."i*) as well as how silly one would feel otherwise for not
knowing the obvious answers to the obvious questions asked by
adults ("And then it doesn't matter what the answer ought to be,
/ 'Cos if he's right, I'm Right, and if he's wrong, it isn't Me."*^)

Not only Christopher Robin but also his friends are plagued
by patronizing adults, but they usually try to be tolerant of the
older generation: "I always answer, / I always tell them, / If they
ask me / Politely. . . / BUT SOMETIMES / I wish / That they
wouldn't."!^ Mary Jane {"And it's lovely rice pudding for dinner
again! "*'*), the dormouse (" 'How very effective,' he said as he
shook / The thermometer, 'all these chrysanthemums look!' "i^),
Jane the "Good Little Girl" ("Well! / Have you been a good girl,
Jane?"'^), and Elizabeth Ann ("Now then, darling, it's time for
bed"'^) all rebel at not being treated like "people."

Another recurring motif which has already been noted is that
of the recognition by the child of childishness in adults. James
James Morrison Morrison's mother who disregarded the ad-
monition of her three-year-old son, the king in "The King's
Breakfast" who slid down the banisters, bad King John who
hopes only for a little recognition and an Indian rubber ball for
Christmas, and the Emperor of Peru who has to bolster his ego by
repeating a formula even the first grader recognizes as nonsense,
represent aspects of childishness, not mature, well-rounded in-
dividuals.

Milne sketches for the adult reader the value system of the
child, ambiguous and self-contradictory at points but piercingly
honest at others. Indecisiveness is neither a source of guilt nor a
threat to the child's safety. He has his parents' protection from all
consequences and therefore revels in his lack of responsibility like
the old sailor who "did nothing but basking until he was
saved! "'^ "Where am I going?" sings Christopher Robin. "I don't
quite know. / What does it matter where people go? / Down to the
wood where the blue-bells grow / Anywhere, anywhere. I don't
know."i9

Security is high on the list of values for the child too, and its
main component seems to be the assurance of togetherness. ("Lit-
tle Boy Blue, My dear, / Keep near, keep very near." / "I shall /
Be always here, / Little Bo-Peep.''^^ This is one of the advantages
of having friends:

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Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.^'

Even the animals reiterate the theme: "And little black Pinkie
grew and grew / Till he got as big as the big Tattoo. / And all that
he did he did with her. / 'Two friehds together,' says Pinkie
Purr."22

But if togetherness is essential, solitude too is desirable as
the child learns to assert his independence. The imagination is
the source of most of the young child's aloneness. If he could he'd
sail to a deserted tropical island, thinks Christopher Robin. "And
I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: / 'There's
nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.' "^^
The first poem of Now We Are Six also expresses the child's
desire to be away from people, especially those telling what not to
do:

I have a house where I go

When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go

Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go.
Where nobody ever says "No";
Where no one says anything so

There is no one but me.^^

Sometimes the child's value judgements serve to call the
adult reader up short and make him re-evaluate a bit. In "The
Wrong House" a little boy wonders, when he realized that though
the blackbird sings from the may-tree "Nobody listened To it, /
Nobody / Liked it, / Nobody wanted it at all." He decides of the
house that "it isn't like a house at all."^^ The best thing about
Jonathan Jo is that he recognizes and accepts as sufficient the
values of the child, for, "If you give him a smile, / Only once in a
while, / Then he never expects any money! "^^ Perhaps the most
important thing about A. A. Milne, too, is that he recognizes and
accepts the child for what he is and is therefore able to interpret
him to others in verse and in prose.

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FOOTNOTES

' "A Man Who Hated Whimsey" (Anon.), Time, LXVII (Feb. 13, 1956), p. 56.

2 Alan Alexander Milne, Autobiography (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc.,
1939), p. 240.

3 Ibid., p. 9.

" Ibid., pp. 282-284.

'' Milne, Autobiography, p. 283.

^ Time, loc. cit.

^ Milne, When We Were Very Young, p. 5.

8 Ibid., p. 34-35.

^ Milne, Autobiography, p. 283.
'0 Milne, When We Were Very Young, p. 21.

" Milne, Now We Are Six, (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1927), p. 19.
'2 Ibid., p. 67.

'3 Milne, When We Were Very Young, p. 43.
>" Ibid., p. 53.
5 /6jrf., p. 70.

'6 Milne, iVou; H"e Are Six, p. 68.
7 /6jrf., p. 80.
8 /6jrf., p. 43.

'^ Milne, WTien We Were Very Young, p. 37.
2 /6frf., p. 80.
2" Milne, Now We Are Six, p. 35.

22 /6jrf., p. 96.

23 Milne, When We Were Very Young, p. 39.

24 Milne, Now We Are Six, p. 3.

25 Milne, When We Were Very Young, p. 66.

26 /6jrf., p. 47.

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22

THE NEGRO IN THE PROHIBITION PARTY

A Case Study of the
Tennessee Prohibition Party

Hanes Walton, Jr.

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THE NEGRO IN THE PROHIBITION PARTY

A Case Study of the Tennessee Prohibition Party*

The Temperance Movement began early in America but at
first in a more or less sporadic fashion. In the 1820's, however,
with the breakdown of the colonial social order, temperance doc-
trines and organizations began to emerge into a major reform
movement and as time passed this reformist movement was aided
by several fellow travelers. For example, in Maine where the first
really vigorous Temperance Movement got under way with Neal
Dow as its leader, the party received its strongest support from
the Anti-Slavery Movement.' In fact, the Temperance and Anti-
Slavery Movements were united in Massachusetts.^ And since
some ideological similarities did exist between Abolition and
Temperance, because they were both moralistic and perfec-
tionistic in nature, it wasn't long before the Temperance
Movement merged with other like-minded political reform groups
in the country.

Reformist Third Parties, like the Liberty Party, the Know-
Nothing Party, and the Free Soilers all over the North joined in
and aided the Temperance Movement.^ And as for the Free
Negro, the movement didn't overlook his support.

Prior to the Civil War, Temperance groups established
societies among Free Negroes in Georgia as early as 1831, and in
Charlottesville, Richmond, and Petersburg, Virginia in 1842.^*

Moreover, the vigorous support of the Temperance
Movement by the Anti-Slavery Parties which had within their
ranks numerous Free Negroes'^ lends credence to the idea that
the Movement before the War had some Free Negro support.
However, at the World Temperance Convention in London, 1846,
Frederick Douglass attacked the Movement in the United States
because it failed to make better provisions for the Negro in its
ranks and to concern itself with his bondage.^ In other words,
many southern slave holders were also supporters of the Tem-
perance Movement and were viewed by it as good men.'' This fact
caused William Lloyd Garrison, later that year, as it did

*This paper was prepared in a revised form for presentation at the 53rd An-
nual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

'John Allen Krout, The Origin of Prohibition (New York: Russell and Russell,
1967), pp. 289-290.

^Joseph R. Gusfield, Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American
Temperance Movement (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1963), p. 58.

Hbid., pp. 53-55.

^Krout, op. cit., pp. 189-190.

''Charles H. Wesley (ed.). Neglected History: Essays in Negro American
History (Ohio: Central State College Press, 1965), pp. 56-77. See Chapter IV on the
Participation of Negro in the Anti-Slavery Political Parties. See also Walton, op.
cit.. Chapter II.

"Krout, op. cit, p. 217.

Ubid., pp. 217-218.

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Douglass to denounce the Temperance Movement as being pro-
slavery in nature and working hand-in-glove with sympathetic
slave holders in the South.

But the southern slavocracy viewed the matter differently.
They felt that the continual union of the Temperance Movement
in the North with the anti-slavery forces was inimical to their in-
terest. And when intersectional strife rose in intensity over the
slavery issue during the 1830's, the identification of the Tem-
perance Movement with the anti-slavery crusade was strong
enough to stifle completely the organization of the Temperance
Movement in the South. Although Temperance agitation had
developed in the southern states during the 1820's, by the late
1830's the Movement was unable to gain any further strength in
the South.^ After the Civil War the movement revitalized itself
especially in the South with great intensity. On the national level
the movement became a Third Party in 1872. A major problem,
however, existed.

National third parties have abounded throughout American
party history,^ but the difficulties of discerning their supporters,
especially ethnic supporters and the degree of each supporting
group is somewhat difficult unless the third or minor party is
ethnically oriented."^ Basically, third parties are composites of
sundry organizations, political groupings, individuals, and ideas.
And consequently, it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain with any
degree of precision the role and participation of each in the
political nomenclature of the minor party movement. Here the
National Prohibition Party is no exception.

For example, the national organization has had such diverse
grouping in its organizational structure as the: Washingtonian
Movement for the Reforming of Drunkards, the Society of Good
Templars, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (hereafter
the W.C.T.U.) and the Anti-Dramshop Party of New York to
name a few.'' In terms of individuals there have been such names
as John Gough, Neal Dow, Mrs. Carrie Nation, Rev. John A.
Russell, and James A. Black. The gamut also runs from
politicians to ministers, from glamorous women to old spinsters
as well as numerous ethnic and religious organizations which
would cover the entire spectrum from whites to Negroes and
atheists to fundamentalists.

**Gusfield, op. cit.. p. 54.

3W. B. Hesseltine, The Rise and Fall of Third Parties (Washington, D. C:
Public Affairs, 1948); see his recent work. Third Party Movements in U. S. (New
Jersey: D. Van Nostrand, 1962). H. P. Nash, Third Parties in America (Wash., D.
C: Public Affairs, 1959), and H. Walton, Jr., The Negro in Third Party Politics
(Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1969).

'"See any of the above works especially Walton.

"Fred E. Haynes, Social Politics in the U. S. (New York: Houghton Mifflin
Company, 1924), pp. 383-386.

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But despite its diverse and diffuse backing, the Prohibition
Party/2 like numerous other third parties, met with little or no
electoral success at the National level. ^^ This party, however,
similar to others, discovered in some places ample sectional or
regional support to such an extent that it influenced state and
municipal politics. And this was definitely the case in Ten-
nessee.''* Moreover, a microanalysis of any minor party sectional
achievements would immediately reveal much more than a
macro-analysis of that party as well as the role and participation
that a particular ethnic group had within the party's movements.

In the case where the Negro is the ethnic group under con-
sideration then the micro-analytical approach is all the more
meaningful, because when a research reflects upon the Negro's
political position in this country, it is easy to dismiss his role or
participation in any political movement as limited or in-
significant due to the certain misleading myths derived from a
poor historical insight into the Negro's past.

Generally, these ideas allude to such myths as: Negroes
couldn't vote during slavery; but after the passage of the Four-
teenth and Fifteenth amendments, he became the political step-
child of the Republican Party until 1932, and a ward of the
Democratic Party thereafter. Or that since he was illiterate and
politically unsophisticated, his vote which could be bought, sold,
or machine controlled or manipulated, was unworthy of genuine
consideration.'^ Thus, such broad and sweeping generalizations
have obscured the true realities of Negro political life in
America. '6 Specifically, in the case of the Prohibition Movement
many have alluded to the fact that the drive in the South to
repress the sale of liquor was only a pretense with the underlying
cause being one to suppress the Negro in actuality. Thus the
Negro couldn't participate in a scheme to suppress himself. But it
is hoped that this paper will later shed some meaningful light on
this assumption.

Moreover, it is further possible to dismiss the Negro in the
political life of this country when the researcher conceives of the
Negro as always being a major political problem without trying
to remove the myopic in his political vision to see what, how, and
when the Negro has used the normal political processes in this
country to solve some of his problems.

'^Andrew Sinclair, Prohibition: The Era of Excess (Boston: Atlantic Monthly
Press, 1962), pp. 23-29.

''Hesseltine, Third Party Movement in U. S., op. cit.. pp. 13-14.

'"'Paul Issac, Prohibition and Politics: Turbulent Decades in Tennessee 1885-
1920 (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1965); A. E. Jewell, "The
Prohibition Movement in Tennessee," (unpublished M. A. thesis. University of
Virginia, 1930); L. F. Rablyer, "The Road to State-Wide Prohibition in Tennessee,
1899-1909," (Unpublished M. A. thesis. University of Tennessee, 1949).

'^For information on this point see Charles H. Thompson, "The Negro Voter
in the South," Journal of Negro Education, 1957, pp. 213-215.

'^See rest of the articles in Journal of Education, 1952 on the Negro Voter.

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Therefoi^e, in view of these difficulties, a macro-political view
of any national political third party movement, the Prohibition
Movement as no exception, will not, depending upon the nature
of the crusade, reveal very much about the Negro's role and par-
ticipation in the movement.*'' But a micro-concentration upon
local, state, and sectional political movements can prove fruitful
because it will weaken old myths and enhance proper concep-
tualization. And this is the reason for a micro-analysis of the
Prohibition Movement in Tennessee.

This paper seeks to explore the Negro's role and par-
ticipation in the special statewide prohibition election of 1877
and discern, if possible, the effects of Negro electoral behavior
upon the attitudes of party members toward their political rights
and privileges in the state. In addition, the paper hopes to dispel
some myths about the southern Prohibition Movement and
provide some further insight to overall Negro participation in the
National Prohibition Movement.*^

The Temperance Movement began in Tennessee in the 1820's
and a party was organized in 1883. It was fostered by the
Quakers and the Congregationalists, who urged upon everyone
the total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. At first the
movement was moral in nature and character, but it soon took on
political overtures and moved into the political arena. But long
before the movement acquired a political character it defined a
place for the Negro in relationship to alcoholic beverages. In fact,
the drive to prohibit the "devil rum" got its first law enacted in
J779 19 This law made it possible to revoke the license of inn-
keepers who sold wine, rum, brandy, ale, beer, cider, or other
spirits, if they "entertained" slaves without the oral or written
permission of their masters. In short, slaves had the right to con-
sume, buy, or sell intoxicants with the permission of their
masters. But this right was curtailed by the passage of two laws
in 1813 and 1830 after the major temperance movement was
initiated. These laws made it illegal for slaves to buy spirits or for
any one to sell it to them. The state legislature in 1832 made this
a condition of licensing, when it required saloonkeepers to take
an oath before acquiring their licenses that they wouldn't sell
liquor to slaves without the written consent of the masters.^^

In the case of the Free Negro in Tennessee, it became illegal
in 1836 for him to sell liquor and the sale of an intoxicant to a
free Negro to be consumed on the spot became a misdemeanor in
1842. Ten years later the sale of an intoxicant to free Negroes or

"^Any work on the National Movement will be very sketchy on the Negro's
role. See Walton, op. cit., Chapter 4.

'^Issac, op. cit., pp. 182-183.

'^Edward Scott (comp.) Laws of the State of Tennessee (Knoxville: 1821), pp.
245-248.

2o/6jrf., pp. 182-183.

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slaves was prohibited. Although the movement gained in momen-
tum throughout the state in the 1840's and 1850's very little was
accomplished and the movement drowned in the intensity of in-
ter-sectional rivalry.^'

After the Civil War two things happened. First the
Prohibition Movement revitalized itself and was successful in
achieving the outlawry of intoxicants near certain businesses (like
the steel and forge industry) and institutions (like colleges, chur-
ches, hospitals). At first these measures were piece-meal, but a
general comprehensive law was enacted in 1877. It was known as
the Four Mile Law which prohibited the "retail sale of all in-
toxicating beverages within four miles of any chartered in-
stitution of learning outside an incorporated town.^^ Although
this law didn't enrage the liquor interest, it did become a spark
for the prohibitionists to dry up the entire state.

The move to accomplish this feat came when the Tennessee
Legislature set a special amendment election for September 29,
1887.23 On this day the electorate of the state would decide on a
referendum which would determine whether or not the state
should have an across the board prohibition law. And it was in
the preparation for this election that the second factor, the newly
enfranchised Negro voter, became important.

The Negro voters in the state by 1887 were estimated at
about 60,000 and could very well, if they voted in a block, decide
the election. Thus, in a "balance of power situation" the Negro
voter became the target for both anti-prohibitionists and
prohibitionists propaganda. Tremendous appeals were made by
both sides and in fact, the campaigns of both groups focused upon
winning over the Negro's vote.

The prohibitionists sought to make more efficacious their ap-
peals to the Negro voter and created separate Negro W.C.T.U.
organizations in Negro churches, schools, and colleges. ^'^ They
even permitted a Negro W.C.T.U. member to speak at the State
Temperance Convention, they held mixed rallies throughout the
state that were addressed by members of both races and a Negro
was placed on the Davidson County prohibition committee.
Moreover, the white prohibitionists, to increase their appeal to
the Negro voters, used their national affiliates to get out-of-state
friends both white and Negro, like General Clinton Fisk and
Frederick Douglass to write appeals to the Negroes in Ten-
nessee urging them to vote for the prohibition amendment. And
furthermore, the state temperance organization had the National

^'Issac, op. cit., pp. 7-11.
^^Ibid., p. 11.
^Ubid.. p. 33.

-'^National Temperance Advocate (May, 1887). pp. 73-74 (Nashville Union,
February 19, 1887). See also Issac, op. cit., p. 36.

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Temperance Society to send in special campaigners to encourage
and organize Negro supporters.

A counter-campaign by the state-wide anti-prohibition com-
mittee under the auspices of Joseph C. Acklen, conducted mass
meetings, numerous rallies and established county and district
committees all over the state. But it didn't have the outside
resources like its opponents. Despite this obstacle, however, the
"wets" did find several Negro spokesmen for their cause and all
the Negro anti-prohibitionist rallies were addressed by members
of their own race, who asked that their vote be against the
amendment. This appeal of the "wets" to Negroes, however, never
reached the intensity and forcefulness of the prohibitionists
because of their lack of funds and a national organization.

Thus, in this morass of charges and counter-charges, claims
and counter-claims the Negro voter had to make a choice for him-
self and these two campaigns to influence his thinking were not
without some degree of success. Negroes of the prohibitionist sen-
timents did much to aid their white counterparts. They performed
additional promotional and organizational work on their own,
especially in the three Negro colleges of Fisk, Roger Williams
University, and Tennessee Central College which became the cen-
ters of Negro Temperance activity.^'^ In terms of the Negro chur-
ches they performed the same task through importing ministers,
like J. C. Price from North Carolina who appealed to 4,000
Negroes from the courthouse steps in Nashville. He told them
that Negroes should fight liquor because it interfered with their
new freedoms, privileges, and responsibilities as citizens.

There were some Blacks including ministers who held anti-
prohibitionists sentiments. These Negroes also held mass
meetings and formed their own separate organization to foster
ideas against the amendment. And they weren't without some ef-
fect. For instance, one Negro newspaper in Memphis, the Watch-
man, declared "prohibition is a slave law, as it puts some in
bondage and leaves others to do as they please." A Negro farmer
in the same city voiced his dislike for the proposed law by stating
that: "I am going to vote for whiskey. I am a member of the
church. I goes for a Christian. I don't preach and don't want to; it
might change my mind. I love whiskey and drinks it regular." In
the same vein a Negro Baptist minister of the same locale com-
mented that: More whiskey, cheaper whiskey, more barrels and
bigger barrels.^^ And it was from comments like these that an ob-
server has concluded that "there was not much chance that a
majority of the Negro voters could be attracted to the reform
camp. 2^ In essence, most Negroes in his opinion could be easily in-
fluenced by intoxicants. But the election results seemed to cast
some doubt upon the validity of his conclusion.

^^Issac, op. cit., p. 36. See also, Nashville American, September 25, 1887.
^^National Temperance Advocate (October, 1887), p. 163.
^^Issac, op. cit., pp. 55-57.

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Although the Amendment was defeated by 145,000 against it
to 118,000 for it, the distribution of the vote shows that East Ten-
nessee and six counties in the northeastern part of West Ten-
nessee were strongly for the Amendment or prohibition. On the
other hand. West Tennessee and part of middle Tennessee voted
strongly against the Amendment or anti-prohibitionist.

Now attaching the vote distribution to a political analysis
(i.e., party affiliation of each county), one would gain further in-
sights because twenty- three out of the thirty- two East Tennessee
counties had Republican voting histories and a grand total of
forty Republican counties in the state voted to dry it up. Fifty-six
of the usually Democratic, counties voted to keep the state "wet",
with a majority coming from forty-eight of them against the
Amendment. In short, then. Republicanism in the state was
closely allied with Prohibitionism while anti-prohibitionism was
associated with the Democrats.

Now taking this information as a backdrop with the
generally accepted information that Negro voting behavior after
the Civil War was mainly Republican in nature or at least co-
erced that way, then we can get a better perspective on how he
voted. Assuming then that the average Negro voter in Tennessee
was a Republican, then he voted for Prohibition (dry). But the
location of the black belt counties was not in Eastern Tennessee
and in terms of their white voting behavior, they voted
Democratic. Therefore, if the majority of Negro voters resided in
this area (Black belt counties) where the Bourbons had redeemed
the state earlier, then it is possible that the redeemers once again
used coercion, legal and illegal, to sway the Negro vote to accom-
plish their own ends (i. e., permitting liquor to be sold in the state
because it brought additional revenues to the State Treasury). ^^

Thus, this analysis using hindsight and some of the new
techniques in Social Science, would indicate that the majority of
Negroes voted in two ways. One, if they voted freely they voted for
or against the issue depending upon the degree of persuasion, or
secondly, if they voted under coercion, they voted Democratic and
against prohibition. But probably the more logical of the two
assumptions is the idea that they voted both ways, because in the
absence of meaningful historical data it is hard to discern which
side received a majority.

However, without the modern analytical tools of today and
in the depth of despair and disillusionment, the prohibitionist in
reality saw the Negro voter's role in the election in quite a dif-
ferent manner. Since they made a vigorous effort to win Negro
support and their cause was righteous and just, victory had to

2*The black belt whites were mainly aristocrats and the power elite in state
government. They always sought to strengthen their power and benefits. See V. O.
Key's Southern Politics: In States and Nation (New York: Vintage Books, 1949),
pp. 75-81.

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have escaped them because of some Judas. Immediately the
credit for their defeat was given to the Negro voter. All of the
major prohibitionist organs, as well as those favorable to their
cause claimed that the majority of Negroes voted against the
amendment.29 One pro-prohibitionist paper, the Nashville
American, made the claim that 90,000 of the 145,000 votes cast
against the amendment were those of Negroes.^*' In fact, the
paper implied that what whites had voted for was defeated by
Negroes under the influence of money, liquor, and the appeal to
prejudice. 3^ Hence, the idea was born that Negro voting was a
hinderance to progressive movements. If progressive movements
were to succeed, then Negroes had to be excluded from political
life."^2 This corollary vigorously and vividly expressed itself in
later state and southern politics.-''^

In terms of state politics, the psychology of the pro-
hibitionists changed after this idea gained in ascendancy. Where
the group had been paternalistic toward Negroes because they
felt that prohibition would "liberate the spirit of progress in the
community elevate the lower classes, especially the Negro and
improve his lot,"'^'' the party now became vindictive and opposed
to Negro suffrage rights. And even Negro leaders like B. T. Wash-
ington and H. Council as far away as Alabama upheld this
position.-^^

For instance, this new attitude change expressed itself well in
the 1908 Gubernatorial campaign between two Democrats Ed-
ward Carmack and Governor Patterson.^^ Carmack, an old time
prohibitionist, who had crusaded hard for the 1877 law and
courted the Negro voters is mindful of Tom Watson of the
Populist in Georgia, because in the 1908 campaign he decried
Negro voting. During this Gubernatorial campaign he and his
allies (fellow prohibitionists) "attempted to make the saloon
responsible for sex crimes committed by Negroes against white

^^Issac, op. cit., p. 57. See also Nashville American (September 30, 1887),
Chattanooga Times (September 30, 1887), Christian-Advocate Nashville XLVII
(October 8, 1887), p. 9 National Temperance Advocate (November, 1887), p. 180.

^'^Ibid., See also Nashville American (October 17, 1887).

"Ibid.

^^For further elucidation of this point see James H. Timberlake, Prohibition
and the Progressive Movement 1900-1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1963), pp. 119-122.

''^See John Corrison, "The Prohibition Wave in the South," The American
Monthly Review of Review (September, 1907), p. 330; William Brown, "The South
and the Saloon," The Century Magazine Vol. 76, pp. 462-463. See C. Vann Wood-
ward, Origin of the New South.

^"Issac, op. cit., p. 40. See also Timberlake, op. cit., pp. 119-120 and Sinclair,
op. cit., pp. 29-31.

^^See B. T. Washington, "Prohibition and the Negro," Outlook (March 14,
1908).

3^Issac, op. cit., pp. 142-152.

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women. "3^ Several examples were given in numerous
prohibitionist newspapers of how drunken Negroes had raped
white women. In other words, the papers suggested that Negro
morals were inherently low, but when the Negro is under the in-
fluence of alcohol, his morals degenerate even lower until he
becomes harmful to the entire community. This thinking was fur-
ther enhanced when Will Irwin's articles appeared in the nation-
wide Collier Magazine of May 16th about the relationship be-
tween southern liquor companies and their labels which pictured
partially clad white women which easily excited or provoked
Negroes to rape.^^ "This gin," he said, "with its label, has made
more blacks rape fiends and procured the outrage of more white
women in the South than all other agencies combined. It is sold
with the promise that it will bring white virtue into the black
brute's power. "^^

This caused one of Pro-Carmack's newspapers to editorialize
in Tennessee that Tennesseeans should "set aside all other
reasons for the crusade against the saloon and consider this
one the Negro problem." Then the paper implied that it could
never be solved without prohibition. "The effect of the saloon
upon the Negro is disastrous to his industry and good citizenship.
And more, the Negro fairly docile and industrious, becomes, when
filled with liquor, turbulent and dangerous and a menace to life,
property and the repose of the community.""*"

Although the anti-prohibition forces behind Patterson in this
campaign tried to play down the threat of the gin-label to
Southern Womanhood, by declaring that a majority of Negro
lynchings in 1907 had occurred in the dry states of Georgia,
Alabama, and Mississippi. It didn't succeed. They were charged
with attacking "Southern men for striking a blow in defense of
the safety of womanhood," while "they had tacitly defended the
fiends and monsters who incite and arouse the Negro to commit
the worst of all crimes. ""*'

And on election day, when Carmack lost to Patterson, it was
felt that Negro voters under the influence of numerous liquor
dealers had been instrumental in his defeat.'*^ Then, the sub-
sequent killing of Carmack by an anti-prohibitionist in a street
gun duel created enough ferment for such a martyr death that it
led to complete prohibition for the state and the cry by the

^Ubid.. p. 147.

^^Ibid.. pp. 147-148. See also W. I. Irwin, "More About Nigger Gin," Collier's
August 15, 1908.

w/6;rf., p. 148.

*^* Nashville Tennesseean (June 16, 1908), p. 17.

"Issac, op. cit., p. 150. See also Nashville Tennesseean (June 20, 1908).

'*'^Ibid., p. 157. See also W. D. Smith, "The Carmack-Patterson Campaign and
its Aftermath in Tennessee Politics," (Unpublished M. A. Thesis, Vanderbilt
University, 1939).

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prohibitionist on September 4, 1909 for total Negro disenfran-
chisement."*"^ It came in 1909.

In retrospect, then, the prohibition party in Tennessee had
Negro supporters as well as opponents. And the prejudices of
party members which were somewhat mute at first, during the
drive to secure Negro votes, came into full blossom when it felt
that they had been defeated by the very people they were seeking
to help. In other words, they felt that the abolition of liquor in the
state would elevate the Negro's lot and when this help was
seemingly rejected, they sought total- disenfranchisement of the
Negro voters in the State.

Now whether the prohibitionist stance and attitudes in Ten-
nessee toward the Negro are true throughout the South it would
depend upon the intensity of the party in each state and the
power of the Negro voters, as well as his voting behavior. But,
there is some material which suggests that this is true, especially
for the period, after Irwin's articles on "Nigger Gin" in Collier
Magazine. However, I would suggest that the matter needs fur-
ther study.

/6jrf., p. 182.

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34

AN INQUIRY INTO BURMA'S POLICY OF
NEUTRALISM

by Hanes Walton, Jr.

35

AN INQUIRY INTO BURMA'S POLICY OF
NEUTRALISM

Non-aligned countries abound today; most of the new states
belong to this category. Some of them pursue a policy of
neutralism, a militant anti-alliance policy that reflects the
peculiar conditions of a world in which Communist power is
rising and Western colonial empires are declining. Non-alignment
and its neutralist variety pose some of the most arduous problems
foreign policy makers have had to face since its inception.

This study is focused on the particular concepts or principles
of Burma's foreign policy since independence which, taken
together, have been described as neutralism. ^ Therefore, in the
following discussion I shall look at neutralism chiefly from the
perspective of Burma as a non-aligned country and seek to iden-
tify and explain the motivations, reasons, and rationalization
that somewhat account, as accurately as possible, for its non-
alignment and neutralism.

This study is not a comprehensive review of Burma's foreign
relations with its neighbors and the major nations in the two
power blocs. Only a limited number of issues and situations
which the leaders of Burma considered to be of major importance
were selected for examination in terms of the application of basic
concepts of their foreign policy.

In order to provide a basis for final evaluation, some
judgment as to the consequences for Burma of its neutralist
policy and to indicate a possible general theory of neutralism, the
next topic will deal with and trace some historical factors which
influenced the leaders choice in 1948. In regard to a general
theory, Burma can be considered, in a great many respects, the
prototype of a small, neutralist country. Burma's government
early determined to follow a course of non-alignment in world af-
fairs and has consistently maintained this policy over a seven-
teen-year period. During this period the Burma government has
confronted many of the same kinds of problems which now con-
cern the newer neutralist nations.

Therefore, my first task is one of identification and ex-
planation of motivations, reasons, and rationalizations behind
Burma's foreign policy. The second task of this inquiry is one of
indication of a general theory of neutralism by using Burma as a
prototype. As I have stated previously, the bases of each one of
these tasks are formed by looking at some limited number of
issues and situations which the leaders of Burma have considered
to be of major importance.

'James Barrington, "The Concept of Neutralism: What Lies Behind Burma's
Foreign Policy," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 201 (February, 1958), 126-128.

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The Roots of Burma's Neutralism

The area known as "Burma" today has been said to lie
within the most distinctive physical environment in the Orient,
because it has but one core area placed within a framework of
mountains.2 Throughout the early history of Burma, the bulk of
the migration has come from the north, while the major cultural
penetration has come from and through India from the west. The
extent of these migrations from the north, the racial and
linguistic characteristics of the migrants are imperfectly known,
particularly for the earlier periods.^ The flow of migrants from
the north took place over a period of centuries. The easiest access
to Burma is by the Bay of Bengal. Consequently, there have been
few attempts by foreign conquerors to control Burma. Control or
even political influence by outside nations was brief and tran-
sitory in the pre-British period. Unlike other territories in Asia,
Burma never became a real bone of contention between rival im-
perialisms.

The population of Burma has been a mixture of ethnic-
linguistic and geographically separate groups throughout its
history. The continuing underpopulation of the country has per-
mitted the Burmese majority and the substantial number of the
minorities to maintain their separate identities and culture.
There has been space and land enough for all. This under-
population, when coupled with the fact that internal com-
munication between the Burmese-population lowlands and the
surrounding non-Burmese highlands and even the coastal areas
has never been adequate, produced an environment in which
diversity and separatism could flourish unchecked. Today, the
Burmese majority of approximately 15,000,000, lives predomi-
nantly in the lowlands, surrounded by some 4,000,000 hill
people the Shans, Kachine, Nagas, Chins, Karreni and many
smaller ethnic-linguistic groups.^ One large minority, the Karens,
are filtered throughout the Burmese population of the lower
Irrawaddy delta and the Tenasserin Coast.

Authoritarian regimes have long been customary in the
region. Whether the old era of Asian potentates is considered, or
the interval of Western colonial rule, or even to a considerable
degree the period of independence after the Second World War,
there is no mistaking the influence of authoritarianism. In the an-
nals of Burma, there is a continuous authoritarian tradition
through the kings, later the British governors, and then the ad-
ministrations of General Ne Win.^ Hence, attempts at a Western

^J. E. Spencer, Asia East by South A Cultural Geography (New York: Mac-
millan Co., 1954), p. 208.

3John F. Cady, A History of Modem Burma (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1958).

*Spencer, op. cit., p. 209.

^Russell Fifield, Southeast Asia in United States Policy (New York: Praeger,
1963), p. 285.

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type of constitutional democracy have met with disillusionment.
However, the forms of Western democracy were generally adopt-
ed: written constitutions, widespread suffrage and elections,
political parties and national parliaments, and cabinet or
presidential governments. But attempts by the new governments,
as we shall see later on, to make constitutional democracy work
in Burma coincided with great domestic and international ten-
sion.

Therefore, the creation of political stability in Burma has
been associated with charismatic leaders of the army. These types
of authoritarian regimes have provided a stable political base by
the abolition or suspension of "democratic institutions."^ These
various authoritarian leaders gained, maintained, or lost their
political authority by the help of religious movements like the
Buddhist Young Men's Association of Burma,^ who helped in-
spire the nationalist movements; by political parties, like the
Burma's Antifascist Peoples' Freedom League,^ which was all-
encompassing but non-totalitarian; the press,^ that functioned as
a guardian of governmental morality and efficiency. Indeed, it
played the role of a "loyal opposition" in Burma's one party
state. This loyal opposition included interest groups, such as
students, urban workers, the Buddhist monks, and the peasants,
largely under the leadership of their traditional village officials
and of the monks. '^ However, it is still clear that Burma suffers
from both racial and regional problems. The desperate struggle
to keep Burma together as a political entity are far from being
solved.

This can be seen in the historical evolution of Burma. For as
colonial rulers, the British gave no serious thought to the
development of anything like a "national" culture, or a
"national" society or economy that would transcend in any way
the group loyalties of the Burmese and of the minority groups in
the country.'' Such a policy would have been contrary to British
economic and political interests. The new British rulers took
Burma as they found it a country of diverse population.

During the first thirty years of British rule in the twentieth
century, the non-Burmese groups were encouraged to retain their
group characteristics and their group identity. The highland
areas were separately administered from Burma proper, where
the Burmese majority lived, and the Burmese were not permitted

^Robert C. Bone, Contemporary Southeast Asia (New York: Random House,
1962), p. 101.

Ubid, p. 105.

^Fifield, op. cit., p. 56.

^Bone, op. cit, p. 109.

'"Bone, op. cit., p. 109.

"Oliver Clubb, Historical Factors in Burma's Foreign Policy (California:
Rand Corporation, 1958).

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to extend their cultural domination over the non-Burmese
inhabitants in any way that might have resulted in developing
common ties and interests among all the people of the country.
They were governed in ways that served to perpetuate their dif-
ferences rather than diminish them.^^

Although some attempts were made to redress this im-
balance before World War II, the Burmese majority and many of
the members of minority groups had developed no feeling of
loyalty toward their British overlords nor any significant belief
that they had a chance to eventually possess and govern a country
of their own. British concessions toward self-government were
grudging and gradual, lagging behind the aspirations and even
demands of the small, politically conscious group of Burmans
who sought independence for their country.

In Burma since the 1930's it has been difficult to place
politicians and officeholders in precise categories. ^^ What can be
said is that Burma politics has been, and still is, characterized by
personal ambition for power and an individual's political power
depends much more on personal relations, family connections,
and personal influence than on any set of ideas or doctrines he
may publicly espouse.'^ To date, ideologies have had relatively
little significance in Burma politics, a fact that must be kept in
mind in evaluating the policies and the actions of the Burma
government since independence. An early example of this impor-
tant factor is found in the career and actions of Burma's hero.
General Aung San. Although nurtured on Marxism as a leading
member of the Thakin group just before the war, Aung San
showed himself much more the practical politician than the doc-
trinaire idealist and in the immediate postwar years before his
death, held fast to his single aim of independence for Burma, thus
becoming the principal stumbling block to the Burman Com-
munists in their postwar bid for power. '^

The effects of the Japanese occupation on the development of
the independence movement and more particularly on the at-
titudes of its leaders cannot be stated in precise terms but it was
during this time that most of the present Burman political
leaders gained their first significant experience in government
operations.

When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, leaders of
the independence movement in Burma were attempting to bring
together political groups of various persuasions to form a kind of

'^Cady, op. cit.
'^Cady, op. cit.

''George M. Kahin, Governments and Politics of Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cor-
nell University Press, 1959), pp. 100-102.
'^Ibid., pp. 85-87.

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united front against the British. ^^ As in other colonial territories,
such efforts could not be tolerated in wartime. By the first of the
year 1940, the newly enacted Defense of Burma regulations,
giving the Governor autocratic emergency powers, enabled the
British administration to label the independence leaders subver-
sive and traitorous to the state. Under these circumstances and
with their connections with Indian organizations effectively
broken, many Burman leaders of the independence movement
began to look to Japan for succor, lured by the new spectacles of
an Asian nation effectively championing the cause of colonial
peoples.

The generally favorable attitude toward the Japanese in
Burma was reflected by most of the population at the start, a
large proportion showing no desire to resist Japan's occupation
and, unless they feared being charged as British agents, they did
as they were told.''' One major reason why many Burmans
welcomed the Japanese and why many of the Burma indepen-
dence leaders of diverse views initially believed the Japanese had
come as liberators was the obvious unpreparedness of Britain to
defend Burma adequately. '^ The swiftness of the Japanese in-
vasion in January, 1942 was as much of a shock to the Burmans
as to the British, but to the Burmans the shock had a double ef-
fect.'^ They had given little thought to a possible Japanese in-
vasion or to any need for the defense of their territory. They
looked upon the war only as an event that caused the British
colonial government to hamper their moves for independence.
They assumed, as did the British themselves, that adequate
provision would be made for defending Burma.^*' The unexpected
rapidity with which the Japanese routed the small British forces
and cleared them from Burma led many Burmans first, to ap-
plaud the success of their Asian "brothers" and second, to feel
that they had, in fact, been liberated from British rule.

During the Japanese occupation on January 28, 1943,
Premier Tojo declared that an independent Burma state would
be created within a year.^' In March, Ba Maw was sent to Tokyo
for consultations, and on his return to Rangoon an Independence
Preparatory Commission was established, composed of twenty-
two members, of which he became Chairman.^^ On August 1,

'^John Furnivall, Colonial Policy and Practice (New York: New York Univer-
sity Press, 1956), pp. 35-39.

"''Willard Elsbree, Japan's Role in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 16.

'8/6jrf., p. 17.

'^Elsbree, op. cit., p. 18.

20Kahin, op. cit., p. 83.

^'William Johnstone, Burma's Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Harvard Univer-
sity Press, 1963), p. 17.

'Ubid.

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1943, a Burmese "Declaration of Independence" was issued and a
new "Burmese" government was formed with Ba Maw taking the
title of Head of State. However, much of the administrative ap-
paratus was under the watchful eyes of the Japanese. The new
government declared war on the United States and Great Britain.
Although this government had no real effects outside the urban
areas, its operation provided invaluable experience to the people
and gave them confidence in their ability to govern themselves.^'^

By 1944, many Burmans had become considerably
disillusioned with the disparity between Japanese promises and
Japanese actions in their country. Resistance was developing un-
der the direction of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
(AFPFL),^'* and the private talks that were to lead to open-
Japanese activity later on had begun. The Japanese were driven
out of the country by the spring of 1945.

In Burma, following the Japanese withdrawal, the circum-
stances under which political decisions were made between April
1945 and the end of 1947, as well as the nature of the decisions
themselves, were to play a large part in shaping the course of in-
dependent Burma after 1948 and the adoption of a neutralist
foreign policy. Two parallel political contests dominated the Bur-
mese scene during this period. The first was carried on between
the chief protagonists of Burma's independence led by General
Aung San, and representatives of the British Government. The
second centered on the struggle between the Socialists and the
Communists for the control of the AFFFL.^^ These two contests
were separate and parallel, yet their outcome was interrelated
and strongly conditioned the postindependence attitudes and
policies of the leaders of the new Burma Government. For the
purpose of clarity, they will be dealt with briefly.

Hence, when the war ended, British attempts to set up a
government under the leadership of Dorman-Smith failed.^^ The
second attempt under Governor Ranee succeeded after he formed
a coalition government with the top nationalist leader and mem-
bers of the AFPFL.2^ On November 8, 1946, Aung San's Executive
Council (a top nationalist leader) requested the British Govern-
ment to make the necessary arrangements for transfer of power to
a fully independent Burma. Shortly, the Aung San-Attles
Agreement was signed. This agreement stated that it was
designed to provide means whereby "the people of Burma achieve
their independence. . .as soon as possible." Elections were to be
held for a Constituent Assembly, and the Governor's Executive

^^Kahin, op. cit.. p. 84.
-''Johnstone, op. cit.. p. 20.
25Fifield, op. cit., p. 56.
26Fifield, op. cit., p. 290.
"Kahin, op. cit., p. 87.

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Council was to act as the provisional government until a con-
stitution was adopted and the date of independence fixed. The
agreement also provided that Britain would sponsor Burma's ad-
mission to the U. N., would negotiate with the new government
for a loan, and left membership in the British Commonwealth
open for Burman decision.^s

A most important question was whether Burma would
become a member of the British Commonwealth or not. The full
story of this decision has not been revealed, but there are known
factors that heavily influenced the complete separation of Burma
from the Commonwealth.^^ Among these was the fact that
Britain's immediate post war policies had caused considerable
ill-will among many political segments of the AFPFL, and there
was an emotional desire to sever all ties with their former
colonial ruler.^*^ These factors were decisive, and the Assembly
resolved that Burma should be independent outside the Common-
wealth.

The Constituent Assembly's work was interrupted on July 19
when Aung San, and six other political leaders were assassinated.
However, on the same day Governor Ranee called upon Thakin
Nu to form a new cabinet. Thakin Nu carried Aung San's work to
completion, and with the adoption of the new Constitution, the
British Government agreed to transfer power to a fully sovereign
Burma in January, 1948. So it was that the first important
political contest of the immediate postwar period in Burma that
between the AFPFL and the British Government was resolved
by peaceful agreement and without bloodshed.

While this political contest was running its course toward
peaceful agreement, the other internal political contest the
struggle between the Socialists and the Communists for control of
the AFPFL was continuing to mount in intensity and it even-
tually led, not to peaceful agreement, but to civil war.^i This con-
test as much as the first had a profound effect upon the post-
independence policies and actions of the new Burma government,
both internally and externally.

The parallel struggles between the AFPFL leaders and the
British government to attain independence and between the
moderate AFPFL leaders and the extremists the Communists
and their supporters provide an important clue to the develop-
ment of Burma's neutralist foreign policy after independence.
The contest with the British was won peacefully and led the Bur-
man leaders to believe that postwar cooperation with Britain and

2**J. S. Furnivall, The Governmenance of Modern Burma (New York: Institute
of Pacific Relations, 1960), p. 21.

'OKahin, op. cit.. p. 86.
3'Kahin, op. cit.. p. 88.

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the Western democracies was desirable, but their basic an-
ticolonialism and old suspicions of Western capitalist nations
were by no means expelled.

On the other hand, the intransigence of their domestic com-
munists, their resort to insurgency under Moscow's orders,^^
served only to instill a fear that the Soviet Union's coolness
toward Burma might be translated into active support for the
Burma Communists in their struggle against the new government.
These various circumstances induced the Burman leaders to
believe that they could ill-afford to take any action which might
antagonize any powerful nations. Their experience with their own
Communists, Moscow's cool reception to their newly gained in-
dependence and their own pride made them refrain from any
direct approach to the Soviet Union for economic aid. Wisely or
not, the AFPFL leadership decided at the start that since their
first tasks were to establish the authority of their government in
the face of rebellion and to get on with the task of economic
reconstruction of their country, they should make every attempt
to remain uninvolved in cold war politics that they should do
their best to remain on terms of "friendship with all nations."
Thus, they established the corner stone of a foreign policy later
labeled neutralism.

The Formation of a Neutralist Foreign Policy

The AFPFL leaders, after independence, plunged im-
mediately into the multifold tasks of organizing their ad-
ministration and deciding how and in ways they should proceed
to turn Burma into a socialist state.'^'^ In doing this they also were
forced to give much of their time to internal politics, to the grave
problem of holding the AFPFL coalition together. In this task
they failed to prevent the White Flag Communists (domestic)
from going underground to join their Red Flag Comrades
(Moscow).'^'*

However, the AFPFL leaders felt that they were least
prepared to carry on the one major function of an independent
government to conduct its foreign relations. These Burman
leaders were not at home in the highly competitive world of cold
war politics. They were neither students nor practitioners of in-
ternational diplomacy. As practical politicians, however, when
facing an uncharted course, they were predisposed to play it safe
until they could learn by experience in foreign relations. Inex-
perience, then, was also a factor in shaping Burma's policy of
nonalignment and neutralism.'^^

^^Johnstone, op. cit., p. 39.

'^Frank Trager, Building A Welfare State in Burma (New York: Institute of
Pacific Affairs, 1958).

'*Bone, op. cit., p. 66.
''Mohnstone, op. cit, p. 41.

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Friendly relations with all nations and refusal to any kind of
foreign aid that might compromise Burma's political, economic or
strategic independence thus became the first two basic principles
officially and publicly announced by the Prime Minister (U Nu)
as a guide to his government's relations with other nations.'^^
Burma's need for assistance in reconstruction and economic
development and the internal political pressures on U Nu at the
time dictated the formulation of these principles and particularly
his justification and explanation of them.

U Nu has emphasized "friendly relations with all countries"
and "no economic aid with strings attached" as the two principles
his government would follow in its foreign policy. To these two
concepts was added an obvious corollary that of avoiding align-
ments or entanglements with any power blocs.

These three themes, therefore friendly relations with all
countries, no alignments with power blocs and no economic aid
that would infringe Burma's sovereignty became the corner-
stones of Burma's foreign policy.'^'' The AFPFL leaders
established the basic concepts for their government's foreign
policy as practical politicians taking account of the weakness of
Burma and its needs for the future as they saw them, but equally
considering the exigencies of Burma politics and the problem of
political survival for themselves as the officials in power. The AF-
PFL leaders were soon to recognize the value of their very general
and rather vague principles. For in any specific action in foreign
affairs, they found that they could interpret their basic policy to
fit the circumstances of the moment.

Between the beginning of 1950 and the end of 1953, the AF-
PFL leaders continued to emphasize the basic elements of their
foreign policy. Western officials, journalists and publicists,
however, increasingly expressed the idea that the new nations in
the world had but two choices to align themselves with the anti-
Communist western coalition or align themselves with the Com-
munist bloc."^*^ In the minds of many Americans and other West-
erners, pursuit of an "independent" foreign policy was a sign of
weakness and the words, "neutral," neutralist, and "neutralism,"
were increasingly applied to the uncommitted nations, always
with the implication that those who were "neutralist" were, in ef-
fect, pro-Communist.

The AFPFL leaders, even more than their Indian and In-
donesian counterparts, resisted efforts to put their country's
position in foreign affairs in such a category. While being vir-
tually forced to accept the labels of "neutralist" and "neutral"

"'Oliver Clubb, The U. S. and the Sino-Soviet Bloe in Southea,'^t Asia
(Washington, D. C: Brookings Institution, 1962), pp. 24-27,

'"Tiber Mende, Southeast Asia Between Two Worlds (London: Turnstile
Press, 1955), pp. 170-179.

''^Fifield, op. cit.. pp. 239-245.

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they nevertheless attempted to so define their neutralism as to
give themselves as much freedom of action in conduct of their
foreign relations as possible. '^^

By the end of 1953, the AFPFL leaders had accepted the
label of "neutralism" for their country but only with reluctance
and qualifications. Burma's "neutralism" did not connote aloof-
ness or withdrawal from world affairs. Nor did it connote a
refusal to take a positive stand on international issues. To the
Burman leaders their foreign policy first of all was "independent"
of ties with either of the power blocs and they arrogated to them-
selves the right to judge each international issue on its merits and
take their stand on what they believed to be "right" at any given
time.

The basic foreign policy which the AFPFL government
gradually evolved between 1948 and 1953 was one that in their
own minds allowed them considerable freedom of action."**^ The
foregoing considerations point to a tentative appraisal of Burma's
neutralism as a policy which provides for maximum freedom of
action by its government.

The Scope of Burma's Foreign Relations

A big power in the international world is almost obligated to
carry on relations with all other nations, large or small, for its
recognition is always sought by new states and there are always
many reasons for establishing relations quite apart from im-
mediate and tangible self-interest. A small nation has a certain
freedom to choose those states with which it will have diplomatic
and other relations. Here, specific factors affect the scope of the
foreign relations of a small nation. These may be budgetary,
trade possibilities, the need for economic and technical assistance
or geographic location, cultural and historical ties. Again a new
small nation, when recognized by a big power or a lesser state,
traditionally is under an obligation to reciprocate and establish
at least minimum diplomatic relationship.

Initially, the government of Burma established relations
with the United Kingdom, the U. S., India, Nationalist China,
and Pakistan."*' Two years later in 1950, Burma-Soviet
diplomatic relations were established. Also in 1950, Burma's
hasty recognition of the People's Republic of China in December,
automatically severed its previous relations with the Republic of
China.42

'^Frank Trager. "Burma's Foreign Policy, 1942-56: Neutralism Third Force
and Rice" Journal of Asian Studies XVI (November, 1956), 89-102.

"Russell Fifield, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia (New York: Harper and
Co., 1958), pp. 167-229.
'Ubid.

45

Once official relations had been established with the nations
most important to Burma's interests, the Burma government was
freer to decide on the scope and character of its relations with
other nations. In expanding its foreign relations the AFPFL
leaders seem to have been guided by three considerations.'*'^ First,
any economic development in the country depended upon sale
abroad of Burma's surplus rice crop. Second, the Burma govern-
ment could fulfill its ambitious assistance only in the shape of
loans, grants, trade agreements, credits, and technical assistance.
Third, the AFPFL leaders had determined that Burma's foreign
policy should be based on the principle of "friendship with all
countries." Therefore, it was necessary for Burma to open up
relations with countries which might not be customers for Burma
rice or might not be able to supply some form of economic
assistance, but with which Burma needed to have official
relations for geographic, historical, or other reasons.

In 1942-49, therefore, Burma opened relations with In-
donesia, a primary rice customer, with Israel, a potential supplier
of technical assistance, and with Japan, through trade missions, a
prime supplier of economic aid in the form of reparation and a
rice customer as well.'*'* Official relations with Thailand were
natural since the two countries were neighbors even though com-
petitors in the world rice market. Relations with Ceylon were
natural because of the common heritage of Buddhism and also
because Ceylon is a rice customer. Expansion of Burma's foreign
relations followed in subsequent years an orderly pattern influen-
ced by the three factors mentioned above.

Official relations between Burma and Egypt, Yugoslavia,
France, and Italy were established between 1950 and 1954.
Following these countries were the United Arab Republic, In-
donesia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In 1955, official relations
were established with Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania.

Burma was one of the UN members which failed to carry out
the intent of the UN General Assembly resolution of 1949 by
recognizing the Republic of Korea as the government of Korea. In
this instance, the Burma government took the position that, to
recognize the government of one part of Korea and not of the
other or even to recognize both Korean regimes, would be to per-
petuate a divided country, a condition the Burma leaders regard-
ed as not conducive to international peace.'*^ The Burma govern-
ment took the same position with regard to divided Vietnam. In
the case of divided Germany, the Burma government did not ap-
ply its principles of nonrecognition of a divided country. The

'Johnstone, op. cit., p. 249.
^*Trager, op. cit. p. 316.

^''U Thant, "Burmese View of World Tensions," Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Sciences Vol. 318 (1958), pp. 34-42.

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Federal Republic of Germany was a recognized source of
economic assistance and formal diplomatic relations were
established in 1956. Also in 1958 the government accepted a
small permanent trade mission from East Germany. As we can
see, in the case of these divided territories, the Burman leaders
have found themselves in a dilemma of conflicting interests.

Implicit in the adoption of "friendly relations with all coun-
tries" as a basic concept of Burman foreign policy was the
corollary principle of peaceful settlement of disputes. In the year
1951-1954, the Burma government faced a potentially dangerous
dispute arising from the presence of refugee Kuomintang troops
in upper Burma. "^^ The Burma government sought a peaceful
solution to this problem, first by obtaining assurance from Com-
munist China of noninterference and next by submitting this
problem to the UN. Although the Burma government was less
than satisfied at the final solution, the problem was alleviated as
a result of its efforts at peaceful solution. Again the problem of
border demarcation which threatened to develop into a crisis in
Sino-Burman relations was finally settled by negotiations and
agreement."*^

The record of Burma's action in the two disputes mentioned
and its record in its relations with other states show that the Bur-
man leadership took the initiative in translating its precept of
"friendly relations with all countries" into action.

By the end of January 1962, the same political malaise of
1952 had set in and with the same result."*^ Political disin-
tegration was forestalled by the military coup d'etat of March 2^^
As in 1958, the military, through their Revolutionary Council,
acted swiftly and arbitrarily in both internal and external affairs.
In regard to the external affairs. General Ne Win's second regime
in 1962 has taken more drastic steps than any other predecessor
of Burma government to reduce Western influence in Burma.'^
Elimination of the activities of the private American Foundations
and Asian Foundations' activities in the country, as well as can-
cellation of English-language teaching programs under the
auspices of Americans and British at a time when there is an in-
crease of Communist missions, technicians, and cultural troupes
coming to Burma,^! is indicative of growing anti-American
feeling.

Thus it is hard to escape the conclusion that under changing
circumstances, Burma's pursuit of a neutralist foreign policy has
led the Burmese government perilously close to alignment with

*Clubb, op. cit.. pp. 86-88.

^^Hugh Tinker, "Burma's Northeast Borderland Problems," Pacific Affairs
XXIX (1956), 324-346.
**'*Bone, op. cit., p. 67.
*9Bone, op. cit., pp. 67-68.
''"Johnstone, op. cit., p. 293.
''Johnstone, op. cit., p. 294.

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Communist China. Even though the actions and events seem to
demonstrate clearly that their government and country have
come within the sphere of influence of Communist China, it is not
yet quite clear whether or not the Chinese Communists can exer-
cise a virtual veto on Burmese policy, thus making it no more
than a verbal declaration, and giving positive assistance to the
Communists of Peking and Moscow. If and when this happens
then Burma's existence as a "neutral and independent" small
nation will cease.

Neutralism as a Policy: An Evaluation

The conclusion stated in the preceding chapter, indicates
that at least in the author's opinion, neutralism has not been a
viable policy for Burma under the conditions of 1962, but instead
has led Burma close to being trapped into a status of dependency
on Communist China. It may be that fortune and circumstances
will favor Burma in the future, as in the past, and that by one
means or another the Burma government may be able to escape
such close alignment with its big northern neighbor so as to main-
tain its integrity. The case of Burma, however, may be unique for
obvious reasons and it cannot be inferred that because neutralism
may have turned out to be unviable for one country it is equally
so for other small nations elsewhere whose situation may be quite
different. It is pertinent, therefore, to summarize briefly the risks
of a neutralist policy for a small nation as they have been
revealed by their specific study of Burma's policy.

The varying attitudes and circumstances noted in previous
chapters are examples of the manner in which the evolution of
Burma's neutralism has been influenced in practical terms. In the
17 years since independence, it seems as if any one set of circum-
stances or events which might have influenced the AFPFL leaders
seriously to modify their government's neutrality policy, has
always been balanced by another set of circumstances or by cer-
tain attitudes which tended to convince these leaders of the
validity of neutralism. Theoretically, the Burma government
could have chosen a different course but it has not because of the
varying circumstances.

Therefore, it is significant that neither India nor Burma used
the label neutralist or neutralism to characterize their respective
foreign policies; nor was it a choice of Prime Minister Nehru or of
Prime Minister U Nu in the first years after independence. Both
leaders seem to have realized from the beginning that the kind of
foreign policy they wished their governments to pursue "non-
alignment with power blocs antagonistic to each other," "friendly
relations with all nations," and "acceptance of economic aid from
any nation as long as it did not infringe on their
sovereignty," could not be described as "neutrality" in the
historic context of that term in international relations. Hence,
both Nehru and U Nu, seeking for succinct descriptions of their

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basic foreign policy concepts, most often used the word indepen-
dent.^^

Beginning with the Korean war, (as was stated in chapter 2)
however, and increasingly thereafter, Western journalists and of-
ficials began to describe the nonalignment policies of Burma, In-
dia, and other nations as neutralist. Explanations by Nehru and
by U Nu of the essential elements of their nonalignment policies
were to no avail. Protests from writers and scholars that this new
usage of neutralist, neutralism, neutral and neutrality was im-
proper and debased rather precise terminology by making the
older definitions of these words meaningless, were to no avail. U
Nu expressed his unhappiness over this semantic development
most precisely in his speech at the National Press Club in
Washington in 1955.

Before this imposition, the term neutral and neutrality as
describing the status or policy of a state in international relations
had become endowed before 1939 with precise meanings. All
students of international law are familiar with the so-called
"Laws of Neutrality" and both in national and international
courts as well as in national legislation and international
agreements, the status of a neutral state and the policy of
neutrality were accepted in international practice along with a
set of criteria by which the policies and actions of a neutral
nation might be judged. Neutrality was generally held to require
a state to refrain from taking part either directly or indirectly in
a war between two nations. Neutrality was considered to be more
than nonbelligerency, but nevertheless was more of a negative
than a positive posture. The neutral state in time of war was
restrained if it followed international custom, from a wide range
of activities which might be construed as participation on one
side and thus give rise to a declaration of war or other acts by the
opposing side which would end such a neutral status.

Throughout a century before World War II, the status of a
neutral state and a policy of neutrality implied as strict impar-
tiality as possible. This did not mean complete stoppage of
relations with the belligerents in a war, or a wholly negative
policy. On the contrary, it was regarded as proper for a neutral to
engage in nonmilitary relations with the belligerents so long as
such activities were conducted without favoritism with impar-
tiality. With the passing of adherence to the old customs and
rules of international law when even after World War I un-
declared wars became more frequent, it was obvious that in
proportion to the extent and scope of a war between great powers,
each side would make the most strenuous efforts to prevent
nations from following a neutral policy and attempt to enlist
them on their side against their opponents.

^Barrington, op. cit, p. 128.

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Hence, today, nonalignment significantly affects the basic
structure of the contemporary international system. While this
system remains bipolar in a military sense, it is becoming in-
creasingly tripartite from the standpoint of policy and political
influence, in part as a result of the East- West military stalemate.
In a tripartite situation any two parties principally involved in a
dispute are deeply concerned over the effects of their respective
policies on any interested third party. The third party is in-
terested as it stands to benefit or to suffer from the dispute. The
third party par excellence in the cold war is the non-aligned coun-
try or group of countries. A growing number of non-aligned coun-
tries actively seek to manipulate the two alliance blocs in order to
redress past grievances and to satisfy present aspirations.

Therefore, my general theory of neutralism would be that
neutralism is an independent foreign policy formulated in light of
the self-interest of the country. As we have seen previously,
neutralism was forced upon these small nations by American
journalists and writers because they would not follow or join one
of the two military blocs. Our scholars, men like Morgenthau,
Liska, and others, have accepted this imposition and have in their
various writings on the subject of neutralism divided it into many
categories, but by doing so they have fallen victims of a semantic
trap. This trap was contrived as we have seen in this paper by
writers and authors, who equated the refusal of a new nation to
join either of the two major blocs in this bipolar system, with the
old and precise meaning of neutrality. This is also why nations
like the U. S. have said that in the Goa incident that India
stabbed neutralism in the back, or that this neutral country is
closely allied with the Communist bloc, or that neutral country is
pro- Western. Quite the contrary, what has happened is that we
have fallen victims to our own imprecise terminology. No such
thing as a neutralist foreign policy existed from the start. The
research in this paper shows that Burma attempted at its very
conception of a foreign policy to formulate one in which its
thought was most in line with its self-interest. Its leaders, as I
have stated in this chapter, came to Washington and rejected this
semantic label because of its impreciseness. The leaders of
Burma have bitterly opposed and rejected this broad label of
neutralism. They have never in any sense thought of or attempted
to instill in themselves and their diplomacy such a thing as
neutralism. I think that this paper briefly proves that to be a fact.
They have enunciated their policy in line with what they thought
to be their self-interest at the present time. Hence, the term
"neutralism" is a creature of American policy makers, journalists,
writers, and scholars. Now they have trouble in handling their
own creation.

To illustrate my point further, American policy makers could
not conceive of such a thing as an independent foreign policy by a
small nation at its birth because this was inconsistent with the

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American overall moral policy of Containment. Therefore, it
became necessary to create this fictitious entity "neutralism".

In concluding, therefore, Burma's policy has been one from
its inception to the present that more or less was independently
conceived. It has reflected the changes in the international scene,
as the major powers changed, as well as reflected the changes in
the domestic scene. Burma's foreign policy has been one that has
originated from its domestic scene and self-interest.

Neutralism was a term imposed upon Burma's foreign
relations by American policy makers when it refused to follow
either bloc in a black or white scheme as set up by our moral
foreign policy. Therefore, the question to be asked is not what
type of neutralist country is Burma? or what type of neutralist
foreign policy has Burma? but how long can a small new nation
pursue an independent foreign policy before it has to align itself
in a bipolar world?

Hence, my suggestion is to remember that neutralism was
created, originated, and maintained by our policy makers and
scholars and it is they who have to be attacked in their preten-
sions, and their impasse destroyed or removed by them.
Therefore, what has been an honest attempt at an independent
foreign policy has been labeled neutralism by one of the two
major blocs. Neutralism, in my opinion, is an attempt at an in-
dependent foreign policy. . . .an inquiry into Burma's policj' of
neutralism, by using it as a prototype has helped to demonstrate
this. . . .

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Rice," Journal of Asian Studies XVI (Nov., 1956), 89-102.

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Undergraduate Nuclear Experiments
with 2iopb.2ioBi Equilibrium Mixture

M. P. Menon

Department of Chemistry, Savannah State College

Savannah, Georgia

It has been recognized by many teachers and scientists that
nuclear education be made a part of undergraduate chemistry
curriculum (1). Although most of the larger colleges and Univer-
sities have been offering at least one undergraduate course in
nuclear science for several years undergraduate students of
smaller colleges are not often exposed to radioisotope techniques.
In a recently introduced "Radioisotope Technology" course at
this college we have developed several experiments with 2'*^Pb-
^''Bi equilibrium mixture which may be useful for similar courses
in undergraduate curriculum.

Several laboratory experiments have been suggested by
various authors, in the past, for an undergraduate course in
radiochemistry (2-6). The ''^^"^Ba equilibrium mixture suggested
for demonstration of parent-daughter equilibrium studies and
half-life determination (2,3) is not very convenient due to the
short half-life of '^^niBa daughter. The half-life determination of
-^^Th (5) is based on the measurement of the daughter, 234pa^ ac-
tivity after it reached equilibrium with its parent and it usually
takes about two months to finish the experiment. The ^lopb.aiogj
equilibrium mixture offers a better choice for the radioactive
equilibrium studies and half-life determination provided a rapid
and convenient method for the radio-chemical separation of ^'^Bi
is available. The dithiazone method for the separation of
bismuth(7) is tedious and more time consuming. An ion-exchange
batch method has been developed in our laboratory for a rapid
separation of ^''Bi from its parent. The isolated ^log^ which has a
convenient half-life (T^ =5d) may be used for half-life deter-
mination. The long-lived ^lopb component stripped out of the ion-
exchange by ammonium citrate solution may be used to study the
growth of the daughter reaching secular equilibrium with the
parent. It is clear from the decay scheme of ^'''Pb shown in Fig. 1
that out of the three radioisotopes resulting from the decay of
-''Pb only the beta activity of ^lOBi can be detected by a G. M.
counter. Beta rays from ^'"Pb are too soft to be detected by an
end-window G. M. counter. This permits the radiochemical
measurement of the distribution coefficient of Bi(III) between the
ion-exchange resin and the aqueous solution. The ^lopb-^'^Bi mix-
ture was also used as an ideal sample for the determination of
Emax of beta radiation from ^logj by absorption measurements.

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EXPERIMENT

a) Purification of Ion-exchange Resin:

Dowex 50W-x4 cation exchange resin, 50-100 mesh, was
purified as follows: About 20 g of the resin was washed several
times with deionized water and decanted. It was then washed
three times with 10% solution of ammonium citrate(ph^^ 3.5).
The resin was thereafter stirred with 3 M HCl to convert the
resin into the H+ form and the mixture decanted. It was finally
washed with water several times until the washings did not give a
positive test for chloride with silver nitrate solution. The resin
was dried in the air and stored in a bottle.

b) Procedure for the Separation of ^lORi:

Two milliliters (*^^ luC) of 2iopb.2iogi mixture in very dilute
nitric acid solution(pH'-^4) was diluted to 6 ml with water in a
centrifuge tube. Half a gram of the purified and dry resin was
added to the solution and the mixture was stirred for two min-
utes. It was centrifuged and the supernatent was transferred to
another test tube. Half a milliliter of this solution was dried on a
flat planchet, mounted on a cardboard and counted in a G. M.
counter. This sample, labelled ^^^^Bi, was used for the deter-
mination of the half-life of ^lOBi.

The residual resin in the centrifuge tube was washed 3 times
with water to remove any unabsorbed activity in the mixture. It
was then treated with 5.5 ml of 10% ammonium citrate solution
whose pH was adjusted to 5.8 with ammonia and the total
volume made up to 6.5 ml, same as before, including the volume
of the resin (0.5 ml). The mixture was stirred for two minutes and
then centrifuged. Half a milliliter of the supernatent was dried on
a planchet, mounted on a cardboard and this ^lopb sample
counted in the same G. M. counter under identical geometry. The
above experiment was repeated three times. The data obtained
from these experiments were also used to calculate the
distribution coefficient of Bi(III) between the ion-exchange resin
and the aqueous solution.

c) Measurement of Emax of Beta Radiation from ^'^Bi:

Two milliliter (v^-n luC) of the same tracer solutioni^'^Pb-
^'^'Bi) mixture) was diluted to 6.5 ml. Half a milliliter of the
diluted solution was dried on a planchet, mounted on a card-
board and counted under the same geometry for several days to
show the equilibrium nature of the tracer solution. The same
sample was used, under different geometry, for absorption
measurements with aluminum absorbers. A standard source of
3.75y 2'''*T1, a monoenergetic beta-emitter with E^nax = 0.765
Mev, was used for the analysis of absorption data by Feather's
method(8).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

The growth and decay curves of ^logj obtained from the
counting data of typical ^logj and ^lopb samples along with the
equilibrium activity of 2iopb.2ioBj ^g ^ function of time are

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presented in Fig. 2. The decay curve "a" shows that there is no
contamination from ^lopj-, from which it may be inferred that the
lead ion is completely absorbed on the ion-exchange resin. The
half-life of ^logj obtained from curve "a" is in good agreement
with the reported value (5.0d). It is to be pointed out that there is
good agreement between the total activity of the ^^opb sample af-
ter reaching equilibrium and the equilibrium activity of the
tracer sample. However, it is evident from curve "b" that the
isolated ^lop^ sample also contains a fraction of ^logj activity
initially in equilibrium with ^lopb Since the beta activity from
2^^Pb is not counted in the G. M. counter this represents the ^lOBi
activity absorbed on the ion-exchange resin. Curve "b" may be
represented by the equation:

At = ABi (r) + (ABi(e) -ABi(r) ) d-e"^^^*^ -d)

Where At is the total activity at any time t, ABi(r) the activity of
2'^Bi absorbed on the column, ABi(e) the total equilibrium ac-
tivity of 2ioBi in the ^lop^ sample, A^i is the decay constant of
2*0Bi. The distribution coefficient, Kj for Bi was calculated from
the following relation(9):

Amt. of metal per g of resin A* r,- /^vv

Kd = = ^^ ^^' . .(2)

Amt. of metal per ml of solution A* Bi(a) "^

where ABi(r) is the activity absorbed in "m" g of resin, ABi(a) is
that in V ml of the solution. The average value of Kd obtained
from three experiments is 12.9 i 2.0.

Fig. 3 shows the absorption curves of the standard source,
204rp^ and of 2^0pb-^*Bi sample. The range of the beta radiation
from 204'j']^ ^as calculated from its known energy using the
following equation developed by Glendenin(lO):

R = 0.407 E^^^ (3)

where R is the range in g/cm^ and Emax is the maximum energy
of beta radiation. The range and energy of beta particles from
^^^Bi were computed using Glendenin's modified method of
Feather analysis of the beta absorption curve(lO). The Emax of
beta radiation from ^lOBi obtained from the analysis was 1.10
mev which is in a good agreement with the reported value of 1.16
Mev.

In summary the ^lopb-^ioBi equilibrium mixture was shown
to be an ideal source to conduct several experiments in any un-
dergraduate course which deals with radioisotope techniques.
Although the yield is about 50% the proposed ion-exchange batch
method may be used for a rapid separation of ^lOBi from the
2iop}3.2iOBi equilibrium mixture.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The financial support given by the National Science Foun-
dation to buy the necessary nuclear equipments to start a course
in nuclear chemistry and carry out these experiments is gratefully
acknowledged. The author is thankful to the students of this
course and especially to David Akins for their cooperation for ob-
taining most of the experimental data.

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Pb

c

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015 Mev(81%)

^ .046 Mev

210p.. \ 5.01 d

0.061 MeV(17%]

1.16 Mev (99%)

138.4 d

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Time(days)
Fig. 2. Growth and decay of ^logj. (a) Decay curve of ^logj
isolated from the mixture, (b) Growth curve of the daughter,
^"'Bi, (c) Decay curve of ^logj by subtraction of growth from
equilibrium activity, (d) 2iopb-2ioBi equilibrium activity from the
ion-exchange as a function of time, (e) Equilibrium activity of the
tracer.

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