BURMA RULE
INDIAN SYSTEM
ASSEMBLY PLANS '
ELECTION BY NATIONALS
QUERY IN COMMONS
(11 a. in.) LONDON, Jan. 28, In the House of Lords to-day Lord Politick . Lawrence announced that Lritain had agreed, after talks with the Burmese delegation, that the people of Burma should as early as possible determine the future constitution of their country and a Constituent Assembly would be elected next April by and consisting of Burmest nationals only. Tt would be conducted generally in the same wav as the Indian Government.
Lord Pethick Lawrence said that the Secretary for the Dominions. Mr. A. G. Bottomley, would go to Burma this week to discuss arrangements and ascertain the wishes of the frontier people. Interim arrangements for finance and defence had been arranged. The Prime Minister. Mr. C. R. Attlee, made a statement in the House of Commons on similar lines.
In reply to Mr. Winston Churchill’s question, “does the statement mean that we pay and we go, or only that we go?” Mr. Attlee said: “The statement does not mean we go. It means that the Burmese have the right to decide whether or not they stay within the Commonwealth.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 5
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