HC Deb 10 December 1945 vol 417 c28
79. Mr. Driberg

asked the Under Secretary of State for Burma if he will make a statement on the Governor of Burma's intentions in regard to the five vacancies on the Executive Council.

Mr. A. Henderson

I am not in a position to make any statement on this matter at the moment. My hon. Friend will no doubt have seen in the Press that the Governor emphasised in a recent speech at Mandalay that as regards the participation of the anti-Fascist People's Independence League in the Executive Council "the door is still open."

Mr. Driberg

Could my hon. and learned Friend suggest that the five vacancies on the Council might now be offered to the League, in an attempt to heal the apparent slight breach?

Mr. Henderson

I think that we must leave it to the Governor to take the best steps he thinks necessary.