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Furthermore in Burma the people have had political training through their participation in local Government for many years before the creation of the Legislative Council. In Siam so far there is no form of real local self government. The best method of training a people for self government is to give them first some control over and responsibility for their local interests with which they are in direct contact.
I would suggest as a safe source that the changes to be made in the immediate future in Siam should be restricted to the creation of a Prime Minister with a fixed term and creation of municipal governments and that the question of the establishment of a Legislative Council should be deferred.
- (Signed) Raymond B. Stevens
- Office of the Adviser in Foreign Affairs,
- 9th March, 1932.
RBS: SP
