Lord Mountbatten and the Return of Civil Government to Burma

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 197-226

  Tarling, Nicholas ^a  

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EID: 84941672065     PISSN: 03086534     EISSN: 17439329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03086538308582638     Document Type: Article

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6. As note 3.
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48. As note 65.
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