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Show 3EBEL EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT DECLINES RANGOON, Jan. 81. The Nationalist Nation-alist educational movement In Iiurma which originated more than a ye ir ago appears to be declining. Large numbers of students have been leaving the Nationalist echo ds and going back to the government hools and government aided mission hools whence they came. A number of the Nationalist schools have been closed chiefly because or ihe difficulty of supporting them without with-out taxation, because no university will recognize degrees conferred - by the" Nationalist college and because of the belief held by many Burman X-Monalists X-Monalists that permanent system of Burmese education cannot be form id until complete homo rule has been attained. at-tained. Une of the first steps In the Nationalist Nation-alist educationala movement was boycott of agitation against the L"nl-ti L"nl-ti -r.-dty of Rangoon. However, Maunij IS. of Mandalay, one of the leaders of the boycott agitation, has Just asked in the Rangoon Times that the boycott boy-cott be called off. He declared that at this stage of the movement it 1 manifest that an unconditional boy-cott boy-cott can produce diro consequences t the nation. In Burma the boycott of one university means a boycott of education. "This .'laying aloof, like Achillea sulking in his tent with the peevishness peevish-ness of u child, is a bad policy in public questions. The university boycott boy-cott is like the Australian boomerang and now rebounds to the aggressor." |