It was here that Aung San edited a magazine before leading an independence movement.
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But, he added, economic and legal powers did not mean an independence referendum was no longer necessary.
But Mr Henry said opposition MSPs should stop "carping on" about the validity of an independence referendum.
On Monday, Mr Salmond and Mr Cameron signed a deal to deliver an independence referendum in 2014.
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Westminster has the power to make an independence referendum legally certain by transferring authority to hold it to Holyrood.
"While a popular SNP isn't a sufficient condition to win an independence referendum, it's almost undoubtedly a necessary condition, " he said.
Scottish ministers, who will stage an independence referendum in 2014, said the UK figures showed Scotland "more than pays her way".
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The legitimacy and logistics of an independence vote were political, not legal questions, said Joseph Facal, Quebec's minister for inter-governmental affairs.
These would probably be broken up as part of an independence settlement, not least because many of their assets are English.
When was the last time you heard about an independence violation by one of the Big Four other than the insider trading scandals?
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Mr Salmond envisages privately that he would need bargaining counters in the event of cross-border negotiations in the aftermath of an independence Yes vote.
This says the rating would depend on the terms of an independence agreement, and how long it takes for the transition to take place.
The Scottish government is planning an independence referendum in autumn 2014.
The SNP, which won the election in May, had said that an independence referendum would be held towards the latter part of its five-year parliamentary term.
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Somaliland, an independence-seeking statelet in the Horn of Africa, for example, has curbed the destruction of its ageing weapons because international sanctions stop it buying new ones.
He added that the Scottish government was engaging in a "dispassionate approach" to the way it was informing the people of Scotland about how an independence might be.
The Scottish government is holding an independence referendum in autumn 2014 in which it wants the people of Scotland to vote yes to the country going it alone.
And the Item Club throws in a warning that the debate over corporation tax powers and an independence referendum is creating uncertainty, which could harm business investment in Scotland.
Another reason for unionists to shy away from an independence showdown is that the SNP's main opponents, Labour and the Tories, are in no fit state to campaign on anything.
"Cameron does not know what he has unleashed, " Mr Farage said: now that the European debate has "started in earnest" in the UK, an independence referendum was sure to ensue.
Alex Salmond was in London today - but not, of course, in the House of Lords where peers were debating whether to grant Holyrood the legal power to hold an independence referendum.
The Scottish government, which is staging an independence referendum in 2014, argues that, in the event of a 'yes' vote, Scotland would remain part of the EU and negotiate its membership terms "from within".
"We have to respect the mandate that the SNP has been given by the people of Scotland to hold an independence referendum, and that is something that both parliament and the political parties should acknowledge, " he said.
That is because both chose to major on the Citigroup report - which suggested that the prospect of an independence referendum was, in itself, destabilising and that an independent Scotland could not afford to fund a big increase in renewable energy.
To be the secretary of defense, you see, is a bit like being the grand marshal at an Independence Day parade: You wear a sash, you hold a baton, you say a few words, you smile, wave and walk the route.
The United States currently suffers from three deficits: a fiscal deficit, a defense deficit, and an energy independence deficit.
But there are other much more complicated issues that are going to take a lot of work, there's an energy independence piece, healthcare, which we have just struggled and debated with, Robert, for literary decades.
Just ask Marcus Brauchli, the Wall Street Journal editor whose sanctity was supposedly enshrined by an elaborate independence agreement between Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, only to have Murdoch sack him, with a generous golden handshake, a few months after taking control.
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Independence, Ken. throws an annual two-day Independence Day extravaganza that includes amusement park rides, parades and a music festival.
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