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Burma chose to be an independent sovereign Republic to be known as the Union of Burma.

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  2. ‘Blueprint for Burma’, by Aung San in the Guardian magazine, March, 1957. A copy of the paper was preserved by Mamoru Sugii of the Minami Kikan and presented to the Defence Services Historical Research Institute.

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  5. Speech delivered on 29th. January, 1958 at the third congress of the AFPFL in Rangoon, published in booklet entitled Toward a Socialist State, Government Information, 1958.

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  6. Broadcast on 12th. March, 1948, reproduced in Toward Peace and Democracy. 2. Speech delivered at the annual giving of journalist awards in 1957. 1 hakin Tin is president of the All Burma Peasants Organization.

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© 1959 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Maung, M. (1959). Form of State. In: Burma’s Constitution. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8890-6_4

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