He does not want to try to make a friendly arrangement with a nation which was wrongly taken over by his own father and to be in association with them, after they have achieved their independence. I am glad that the hon. The acts enabled companies to borrow money, with the capital and interest guaranteed by the government, for projects which would create employment. One is virtually the reconquest of Burma. Very few Constituent Assemblies have worked so quickly. is that I do not accept the Panglong Agreement at its face value. We came to the conclusion that there were three clear things to be done, that, first, there should be a brief period of direct rule; secondly, the establishment of self-government in Burma; and, thirdly, the negotiation of treaties with that Government in regard to finance, commerce and the protection of British interests. Secondly, if we try in the case of Burma, Ceylon and India to amalgamate them in some sort of Federal Union with us, I suggest that it would confuse the politics of their countries and of ours. but a totalitarian regime. It is all very well for hon. Does he really think that, when two countries are newly set up and inaugurated, it is a Members on both sides of the House who have taken part in this Debate will forgive me if I do not follow the arguments they have put forward—and I have listened to most of them. We should do what we did in South Africa after the Boer War. India has great economic interests in Lower Burma; China has always cast covetous eyes on Upper Burma. Member. Members opposite. 1943 MEMBERS: "No."] What then would hon. What are we going to do? His assurances are proved by the fact that our small community has been privileged to be actively associated in the shaping of the destinies of our country. I would not say that the Burmese Government have behaved in the wisest possible manner over it. They insisted on it, and I hope they will make a success of it. I realise that the action we are about to take will lead to possible misunderstanding and perhaps misrepresentation, either wilful or otherwise, not only in this country but also in Burma. I believe that the strength of the British Commonwealth in the past and in the future lies in the fact that its self-governing nations wish to remain inside and have the power if they like to get out when they want. Surely, that was a prior charge. commended to one by one's right hon. In section 184B (which regulates relations with Indian and Burma Air Forces) the words "India or" and the words "by the Air Council and the Governor-General of India or, as the case may be," shall be omitted. Can anyone with a sense of responsibility, and with the example of India before them, take this step in that light-hearted way shown by hon. Previous to the rise of the British Empire, there were two great Empires in Europe, the Spanish and Portuguese. He returned to Europe, and at the first moment when he could find a Japanese Consul, which was in Lisbon, he offered his allegiance to Japan. It raises whole issues affecting the British Commonwealth of Nations and our actions must be based on Imperial and moral grounds. Gentleman has gone further than that. Provisions of the Indian Independence Act, 1947. He was contemplating not an easy delay, but the use of force. 1947. TV.com. A., B. L., Source/publisher: RISHI RAJ VERMA. Google Scholar Burma: Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma. Were they fighting for the whim of a Socialist Government, so that the same country which they fought to restore, should be given away without any discussion and without any thought for what the consequences might be? When we get these great surges of national feeling, unreasonable and irrational though they may be, and though they may ultimately tend to disaster for the people who experience them, we cannot reason with them. The answer is that any competent and responsible Government would not have followed that course of action which has brought about these results. Their whole idea seems to be that we have got to hold on to every scrap of earth that we have ever possessed, and in the same position as we have always held it. I say to them, and most earnestly, that, if they cannot bring themselves to share the responsibility of the Government in passing this Bill into law, then, I believe, it is their duty and is in the highest interests of this country and of Burma to say to the Government: "The power is yours, the responsibility is yours. 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