BURMA’S INDEPENDENCE
BILL BEFORE CHRISTMAS (11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The Secretary for Burma, Lord Listowel, announced that the. Government hoped to pass the bill giving Burma independence before Christmas. He added that Mr. R. Bowker, at present Minister at Cairo, would go to Rangoon as High Commissioner early in November. He would become the first Ambassador after the transfer of power.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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62BURMA’S INDEPENDENCE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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