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Burma

Pyee-Daung-Su Myanma-Nainggan

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Abstract

The Union of Burma came formally into existence on 4 Jan. 1948. On this day, Sir Hubert Ranco, the last British Governor, handed over authority to Sao Shwe Thaike, the first President of the Burmese Republic; the Cabinet took the oath of office, and Parliament ratified the treaty with Great Britain providing for the independence of Burma as a country not within His Britannic Majesty’s dominions and not entitled to His Britannic Majesty’s protection. This treaty was signed in London on 17 Oct. 1947 and enacted by the British Parliament on 10 Dec. 1947.

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S. H. Steinberg Ph.D. (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society)

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© 1968 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Steinberg, S.H. (1968). Burma. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270978_47

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