By 1945, French authority was broken, and appointment of a nationalist government was approved, encouraged by the Japanese. ... In his view, it was indeed the British government's naivety towards the colonial leader's influences on their people, but rather through the fault of economic and political methods. ... To further this, Austin argues a similar point in which the British government were "unusually" enthusiastic on the local autonomy of a possessed colony and with it being an empire of non-integration, the aim was to rule over a colony that did not have to be allied with the c...

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