This essay portrays the essence of the white supremacist worldview shared by Churchill and Roosevelt through the frustration of Burmese Prime Minister U Saw.
It sharply exposes the hypocrisy of the Atlantic Charter, the reality of colonial rule, and the cruelty of an era in which non-white nations had no choice but to cling to the supposed “good conscience” of white powers.

2019-07-01
He was a white supremacist who sincerely believed in what Rudyard Kipling called “the white man’s burden,” that is, the sacred mission of guiding inferior colored races.

“What they need is the whip.”
Churchill flatly rejected the Burmese prime minister’s request.
He graduated from the elite Harrow School and entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He was also posted to India as an elite officer.
To the world of colored races.
When Gandhi visited the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi wearing sandals, Churchill hurled every possible insult, saying, “A colored man is defiling Her Majesty’s building.”
A colony is a system that enslaves an entire nation.
On the surface, it is made into a protectorate and a government is also given to the colored race, but there was never any possibility for them of self-government or a bright future.
After meeting him, Churchill told Amery, “What they need is not independence but the whip” (Christopher Thorne, The Pacific War for Britain and America).
In late November, U Saw crossed the Atlantic to meet U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
A little before that, the President had announced aboard the battleship Prince of Wales the Atlantic Charter, which declared that “all peoples have the right to choose their own form of government, and sovereign rights that have been taken away should be restored.”
Burma had in fact been deprived of its sovereignty and had further suffered the humiliation of being incorporated under British colonial India.
U Saw believed that President Roosevelt would understand Burma’s pain.
If they could not defeat the white man in battle, then they had no choice but to cling to his conscience in order to escape from slavery.
That, in other words, was the way for an inferior racial nation to survive.
But Roosevelt had no intention of meeting him.
He told an aide the reason.
“The Atlantic Charter was not for colored races.
It was about the white nations of Eastern Europe whose sovereignty had been taken away by Germany.”
If one were to infer the President’s heart, what angered him rather was that colored races, Japan included, thought of themselves as equal to white people.
Moreover, the President was extremely busy at that time.
Japan, after being presented with the Hull Note, had finally begun to move.
Coded telegrams were arriving frequently at the Japanese Embassy in Washington.
An event that would turn heaven and earth upside down was about to occur.
He was busy making preparations for it.
A disappointed U Saw headed for the West Coast and boarded Pan American Airways’ flying boat China Clipper from San Francisco.
The Martin M-130, which departed at dusk, landed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii at eight o’clock the next morning and was moored at the bay’s northern pier.
After a long journey of about fifteen hours, the fourteen passengers stayed one night at a hotel in Honolulu, and at eight o’clock the next morning they would enter Manila by way of Midway, Wake, and Guam.
It would be a long journey of four nights and five days.