BURMA CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1932, Page 5

BURMA CONFERENCE

ITS WORK CONCLUDEDSUMMARY BY CHAIRMAN. (British Official Wireless.J RUGBY, January 8. Except for a statement of the Government policy which the Prime Minister will make on Tuesday, the Burma Round Table Conference has concluded its work with the plenary session to-day. A resolution was unanimously 'adopted expressing jjraltitude to the King, and stating: “At the conclusion of the Conference summoned to consider the lines of a constitution for Burma, separated from •India, the delegates (would wish to assure Your Majesty, if such assurances are required, that they and the people of Burma yield to none in their unfaltering loyalty to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty’s Throne.” A resolution adopting the • report expressed the hope that, as it recorded the opinion of all the parties represented, and registered a substantia] measure of agreement, it would serve the purpose for which th Conference was called.

In concluding the general discussion, the chairman, Lord Peel, to whose services many appreciative references were made by delegates, ex. pressed the view that perhaps some of the delegates had concentrated their attention too much. on the safeguards and controls that are to be reserved for the Governor, and had not sufficiently realised the enormous transfer of actual control of business which under the constitution foreshadowed, must come to the Burmese Government and people. A great range of provincial and central subjects involved a tremendous weight of fresh respoiisiility upon Burma’s legislature and Executive in comparison with which the socalled controls and safeguards shrank into less importance.