INDIA TO BE FULL MEMBER OF COMMONWEALTH
LONDON, April 27 (Rec. 7.15 p.m.) —The Dominion Prime M nisters will advise the King today that they have reached complete agreement that India should remain a full and equal member of the Commonwealth after she becomes a republic, says Reuter’s political correspondent. This decision was reached at a late night session of the Commonwealth Conference which climaxed a five-day search for a formula giv ng equality of Commonwealth membership to both kingdoms and republics. The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, will accompany the other Commonwealth leaders to Buckingham Palace immediately after the final session of the conference.
The political correspondent of the “Daily Express” says Pakistan and Ceylon are expected to cla m the same treatment as India and to be allowed the same status but a new development being discussed last night was that Burma and Eire—now both independent republics—might ask to reenter the Commonwealth on the same terms as India.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 28 April 1949, Page 5
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