CONFERENCE ON BURMA
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Suggestions For Settleinent Of Unrest
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Received Tuesday, 9.35 a.m. NEW DELHI, Feb. 28. Representatives of Britain, India and Australia met in New Delhi today for informal talks about the unrest in Burma. The Prime Minister of India, Pandit Nehru, presided. Amongst the representatives who attended were Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Special Commissioner in Southeast Asia, Dr. H. V. Evatt and Mr. Arthur Bottomley, British Minister for Overseas Trade, who is holding trade talks with the Government of India. India is very concerned about the Burma situation. A communique announcing the conference said that the Government had followed with anxious interest the recent developments in Burma, where it feeJs that apart from the wide issue involved, the export of rice may be affected. After today's conference, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs issued a -communique saying that the informa1 conference on the 'situation in Burma had unanimousiy decided to address a joint communication to the Prime Minister of ^urma, Tnakin Nu, wherein certain suggestions have been made for exploring ways and means for finding a peaceful settlement."
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1949, Page 5
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