¹ It was then that the British Government of Burma requested his views for postwar solutions to long standing colonial problems. This book is the product. There is no evidence—though Furnivall has been silent on this point—that his document was favorably received. “If it had” forms one of the innumerable “ifs” in history. Its acceptance would have most probably avoided the calamitous introduction of Whitehall's White Paper of 1945. The latter called for “a reversion to executive rule as it had functioned before the political reform of 1923. … Everything was to be as it had been before the war, only more so” (from Furnivall's chapter, “Historical Setting,” in F. N. Trager and associates, Burma, Human Relations Area Files, Inc. [1956] p. 32).Google Scholar