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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1940.

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

THE NEW COLONIAL

POLICY

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History will doubtless look back on this period as being the most critical stage of African develop- ment, errors that are made now for lack of knowledge which a well-con- sidered scheme of special study might supply will create situations which the future can rectify only at the cost of great effort and much human distress.

The corollary to this new expendi- ture is a change in administration, and the White Paper declares that "pro- nel both for planning and for carry- per machinery and adequate person-

ing out plans should be established in the United Kingdom as well as in and there each of the Colonies should be a regular liaison between the authorities at home and overseas."

With the Government's White Paper a new period of colonial policy begins. The Government and, particularly, the Colonial Secretary, are to be congratu- lated on their wisdom in withstanding, the temptation to put things aside un- til the end of the war. It is tempting to urge that money and energy are needed elsewhere and that since the colonies are whole-heartedly with us in the war they can patriotically wait DISTILLED, BOTTLED and MATURED| until all of us can breathe freely IN COGNAC, FRANCE, BY RENAULT once again. We shall doubtless hear This, the co-ordination that is to be much of this kind of argument when expected of departments in the co- lonies themselves, and the injunction any sort of social or economic reform that comprehensive plans shall be is proposed. But it is fatal and the framed in each without loss of time worst kind of defeatism. The resetting, will bring something like a revolution in the attitude and out-look of the for that is what is amounts to, of our colonial service-if the "driving force attitude towards the colonies is in it- in Whitehall is maintained,--"Man- self an affirmation of our war aims.

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AN INVASION OF

ENGLAND?

ever to the well-being and good gov- be invaded and an enemy force land- The possibility that Britain might ernment of the millions of coloured ed on its territory has never

been peoples of whom we are trustees? The entirely discarded in any of Britain's new policy has not been dictated by major wars. The Spanish Armada in the war. It has been gradually shap- 1588 was an attempt at invasion. The ing over the last few years, and the Young Pretender who landed in Scot- appointment of the West India Royal land with seven officers in 1745 was Commission only brought reforms ur- disappointed to receive no backing gently to focus. Now the Government from a French expeditionary force. can do, and proposes to do, two things; Napoleon was a possible invader, be- it can meet the pressing needs of the fore the Battle of Trafalgar. The old West Indies and it can apply the same Martello Towers on England's south- measures of assistance and planning to ern coast are still witness of the pre- the rest of the colonies. The essence of parations against invasion. the new policy is the end of the old In 1914-1918 it was never con- doctrine that a colony is only to have sidered impossible that the Germans those services that it can afford. What might attempt a diversion and under ever its financial situation it must be cover of an engagement elsewhere provided with adequate standards of throw a raiding party across the North government and, with essential public Sea on to the English East coast. For welfare services. Much as there is in that reason, during the last war, a the last twenty years of colonial ad- considerable British force was main- ministration of which we can feel tained in that region, and trenches proud, It remains true that we have in dug..

these respects not acted up to our res- In this war a German invasion with ponsibilities and that, in particular, we troop-ships-is-even-less likely than have been slow to repair the economic in the last war, for Germany has no damage that the world slump of a de- cade ago left behind it.

Grand Fleet which could come out and divert any. considerable portion of the The White Paper announces that the British Navy and any attempt to carry Government proposes, to allot up to the smallest Germany army across the £5,000,000 a year for ten years for North Sea would be extremely peril- colonial schemes of capital expenditure ous. The only kind of German inva- and, equally if not more important, sion which could be hopefully attempt- "for helping to meet recurrent expen- ed would be by air. The idea that diture in the colonies on certain ser real army, complete with artillery, vices such as agricultural education, ammunition, and food supplies, could health, and "housing." The old Colonial be transported by air and dumped on Development Fund goes, and with it British soil may probably be dismiss- the practical limitation of assistance ed as chimerical..

MORE INSPIRATION

to non-recurring objects. In future the But the Germans showed in Po- British Exchequer can be drawn on land that it was possible to drop not merely to subsidise rallway build- men by parachutes behind the lines, ing but to build up good health ser- and indeed on one recent occasion, vices, provide de-

though without cent housing, and

success, a similar train peoples in the

landing was made forms of agriculture

behind the French best suited to their

lines. It is by no economic stability.

means: inconcely- Where grants in ́aid.

able that they to meet the deficit

might succeed in [of a poor colóny

landing. small had formerly to be

parties of men. in wrung from a re-

England, their ob- luctant

ject being to do mischief at key points. Britain

Treasury

only after dese

perate administra-

·What we want la mors spiration. Given that, the physical mechanism of speedler victory will be created with relative ease. The power of democratio lender chip is to excite the self-activity -of free will.—J. L. Garvin.

tive economies, Exchequer assistance has, of course, taken precautions will be granted in a generous spirit; against raids of this kind.

It will be "planned expenditure”.made

For purely. Home Defence, and, for with the help of a Colonial Develop employment in every county, Britain. ment and Welfare Advisory Commit

has, one valuable arm which could

tee In London on which non-official be maintained members, will sit. At the s

same time again mo huously, for use

£500,000 a year will be spent through men who

a Colonial Research Advisory Com- mbers mittee. The White Paper acknow» dist ledges its indebtedness to Lord Hailey's sidera

ggestion in hir - "African Survoy,

Hailey of research sens bearings on other parta

the Sunp

They are the older recruited in large service mainly In the where they reside; A con- proportion of these men are who served in the last war, terans adaptable" "for any hristian · Science Moni..

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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1940.