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LIST OF THOSE TAKING PART IN THE CONFERENCE

UNITED KINGDOM

Commonwealth Relations Office

G. H. Baxter, C.M.G., C.I.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State

(Chairman of the Conference).

J. P. Gibson, C.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Head of the Southern Rhodesia

Department.

J. S. Gandee, M.B.E., Principal.

Colonial Office

A. B. Cohen, C.M.G., O.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State.

C. E. Lambert, Assistant Secretary, Head of the Central African Depart-

ment.

R. S. Hudson, C.M.G., Head of African Studies Branch.

J. L. Leyden, C.B.E., Liaison Officer.

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

A. H. Strachan, C.B.E., Secretary to the Treasury.

L. Powys-Jones, Secretary for Native Affairs.

T. G. Gisborne, Secretary to the Cabinet, and Secretary for External

Affairs.

J. R. H. Shaul, O.B.E., Director of Census and Statistics.

A. D. Evans, M.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Division of Internal Affairs. J. Ward, Assistant Secretary, Division of Trade and Industrial Develop-

ment.

J. F. Bowles, Division of Native Affairs.

W. F. Nicholas, Cabinet Secretariat (Secretary).

NORTHERN RHODESIA

R. C. S. Stanley, C.M.G., O.B.E., Chief Secretary.

E. I. G. Unsworth, Attorney-General.

G. E. Thornton, C.M.G., M.B.E., Financial Secretary.

R. P. Bush, O.B.E., Secretary for Native Affairs.

W. G. N. Lightfoot, O.B.E., Chief Establishment Officer.

J. Bathurst Brown, Accountant-General.

NYASALAND

C. W. F. Footman, Financial Secretary and Chief Secretary Designate. V. Fox-Strangways, Secretary for African Affairs.

W. J. R. Pincott, Administrative Officer.

J. A. G. Corrie, M.C., Administrative Officer.

CENTRAL AFRICAN COUNCIL

A. E. T. Benson, Chief Secretary.

H. N. Parry, Chief Secretary Designate.

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Advisers

W. L. Dale, C.M.G., Deputy Legal Adviser to the Commonwealth

PRelations Offices and the Colonial Ofpage 397 of 587 Professor K. C. Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public

Administration, University of Oxford.

The Secretaries to the Conference were:

J. A. Atkinson (Cabinet Office).

D. Williams (Colonial Office).

P. B. Lewis (Commonwealth Relations Office).

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ANNEX II

(Para. 17 of Report)

NATIVE POLICY IN THE THREE TERRITORIES

1. The conclusion to be drawn from the Comparative Survey of Native Policy(5) is that the ultimate aim of policy in each territory is to advance the African to the stage where he is in all respects a full partner, exercising all the rights and accepting all the responsibilities of citizenship.

2. Even in present practice there is much in common between the policies pursued in the three territories. For example, all territories are concerned with the immediate economic and social advancement of the African, all are develop- ing local Government institutions such as native courts, native authorities and treasuries, and all are following the same policies in education, health and agricultural development. There are, nevertheless, a number of differences, some of them important, as for instance, in the political sphere in central Government (see paragraph (e) below), though they are essentially of timing or method of approach. These differences are as follows:-

(a) His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has special responsibilities under treaty and otherwise for the protection and advancement of the African peoples of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, for whose administration His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom is ultimately responsible to Parliament. In Southern Rhodesia full power is vested in the Legisla- tive Assembly and is limited only by the provisions relating to reserve powers.

(b) In practice there is, in the northern territories, a considerable degree of geographical separation of the races, but their laws neither recognise nor establish this (save that in Northern Rhodesia Native Reserves are set apart for the exclusive use and benefit of the Africans). Southern Rhodesia, by its Land Apportionment Act (described by the Prime Minister when it was re-enacted in 1941 as an interim measure) has declared special European and Native areas.

(c) Policy in the northern territories holds that in order to fit the African to take his place in the community as a full partner with citizens of a more ancient civilisation he must be induced to play a full part in the politics and administration of his own area and must play a direct part in the politics and administration of the whole territory. This is in the belief that without such political education there can be no assurance that the African would be able to play his full part in material and economic development.

(5) This is being published separately (see Report, paragraph 17).

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