Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1947 — Page 14

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Britain Pushes Plans For Development of 11 Colonies in Africa

Seek Cheap Raw Materials From Mines, Land To Compete With Other Exporters

By ERNIE HILL, Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 26 Undaunted by -the-blow=tps-s-Hidbe-and Pale tine, Britain is pushing full-stale plans for the de velopment of 11 dark colonies in East and West Africa. On them, the British cololnial office is counting for a vast raw materials and wealth during the next generation They are counted upon to play a big part in replacing important colonies that fire gaining their independence to remain only loosely a part ‘of the British Commonwenlith. Few people recognize many of Minerals, lush the names of these 11 ‘British verdant forests are

colonies. But more 1s bound to be some of the eastern colonies. The heard of them as lclimate in the southern quarter

they start pro- of the dark continent is both warm ducing and con- and Invigorating tributing to British as well as world economy

supply of

to that of Canada, of course, and is well developed farm lands and untouched In

Currently, these colonies have a I [favorable ‘export balance of only F 18100 million annually, The Briush

Seven, on the feel they can Increase this by 25 east const of Afri- times within a generation .ca, are: Kenya, ? | They are going about it as they Northern Rho- {have in other parts of the world defsa, Nyasaland, o | Natives, ranging from savagery to

Somaliland, Tan #8 ganyika, Uganda" and Zanzibar. Four, on the west "€irambia, The and Sierra Leone The union of South ready has

semi-civilization will get improved health standards and some slow Mr. Hill degrees of education. They will be COASY, are taught to work in fields and in Gold Coast | factories, and to take minerals from the soil. Standards of living, now on Africa al- 4 bare subsistence level, will be dominion status similar p,ised to some extent

Nigeria

The object, of course, is Britain “with cheap raw [to compete with other natiors In modern

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sh Stafford Cripps recently sald that $600 million earmarked for colonial development, might be held up for A Year or so, But this has brought a flood of protests in Parliament British leconamists see the development of [Africa as one of the empire's best long- term Investments. They consider it more essential than many of ithe things on England is

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Enlightened Policy Forecast

Store.” Harold Stannard, an authority on colonies, says that Britain plans ito follow a new and enlightened policy in developing Africa “If the natives can see that there are positive advantages in racial AN {co-operation and a positive common FREEZERS goal In erecting a structure of a ‘new and hetter physical lite in

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| Britain generally feels that the need for continued colonial expansion is tied to Winston Churchill's recent prophecy of doom, Churchill sadd that one-fourth of the people of the British Isle would be forced to move to other parts of the world if things keep going today under the ment, i More dividends from developed colonies is considered one of the

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ways to avold British economic collapse Copyright, 1947 by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily New 1

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