BURMA’S FUTURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 12

BURMA’S FUTURE.

LIVELY DISCUSSION LIKELY. The Burma Legislative Council is “keyed up” for the forthcoming debates on the question of separation from India and its formation into a self-governing State of the Empire (says a Calcutta message). It will bo recalled that the recent general election gave a verdict in favour of entering the Indian Federation, but owing to a series of misunderstandings, this, it is believed, does not represent the real feeling of the Burmese people. At the opening session of the Council a censure motion was introduced by Sir Joseph Maung Gyi, former Governor of Burma, for the removal of President U. Cliit-lilaing, on the ground that he exceeded the impartiality of his office by ruling out of order certain motions on the subject of separation.

It was complained that the president by -his actions had insulted the House and broken his promise to ignore party politics. The motion was carried, 75 votes to 20, and for the first time in the history of the reformed Indian Constitution the President of the Provincial Council has-been literally turned out of the chair during a session. The real feelings of the Council are now to be tested in a motion, which proposes that Burma conditionally remain part of India, entering the new federation pending a oonferenco to discuss the future Constitution. As this directly conflicts with the Premier’s statement, which was that Burma must make up her mind to stay in the federation on a seperate basis, the debate is likely to be lively.