太平洋战争期间英国对缅甸政策出台始末

战前 ,缅甸的民族独立运动已使英殖民当局难以招架 ,英国政府不得不向民族主义者许诺 ,在条件成熟时 ,英国将给缅甸自治 ,但这个许诺不过是一个遥遥无期的长把伞。欧战爆发 ,使英国政府无力顾及它在远东的殖民地 ,缅甸民族主义者再次看到独立的希望 ,但是 ,英国政府逆历史潮流而行 ,仍然采用欧战爆发前的殖民政策来对付缅甸的民族主义 ,特别是在太平洋战争爆发后 ,缅甸民族主义提出联英抗日 ,促进缅甸独立的政治主张遭到英殖民当局的拒绝 ,英国不顾已经变化了的国际形势 ,采取高压政策 ,大肆逮捕民族主义领袖 ,使缅甸民族主义者转向日本 ,以…

The Whole Story of Britain''''s Policies on Burma during the Pacific War

In the early period of the Pacific War, the British colonists in the Far East Asia were driven out of Burma. In order to return to Burma after the war, the British government was unwilling to express its attitude toward Burmese future. Although studies and plans had been done on Burmese development after the war within the British Conservative Party, yet they were all denied by Churchill, who later had to work out an explicit policy towards Burma after the counter attack against the Japanese fascists began. Britain worked out a white book, which reflected its dilemma. On the one hand, its government was unwilling to retreat from Burma and on the other, it could not find a better way to control Burma. So this paper argues that the above reasons are the essential cause for Burma to seek independence from the British Commonwealth.