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...dreams of independence, commented bitterly. Said New Delhi's Hindustan Times: "A vague promise of this kind, hedged round with such conditions that they can always serve as an excuse for doing little, is nothing but a cruel piece of casuistry." In London a Burmese moderate, Sir Htoon Aung Gyaw, adviser to the governor of Burma, warned Britain bluntly: the Burmans want no interim government but a constituent assembly; their present cooperation with the British should not be taken as love for British rule...