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Cabinet a specially appointed Minister for African Interests, strengthens the African Affairs Board and gives Parliament opportunity to examine

any proposals for constitutional amendment which are not acceptable to Africans.

8.

The new features should help to commend the Scheme both to Africans and to critics in this country. We intend to ensure that it is fully understood in Central Africa, and our purpose is that a further Conference should be held later in the year in Africa to consider the reports of the three Commissions and put the Draft Scheme into final shape. It would then be submitted to a referendum of the Southern Rhodesia electorate and to the Legislatures of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland for ratification.

9.

Before the next Conference we shall have need to consult our colleagues further on the future policy of Her Majesty's Government and particularly on the issue whether federation is to be introduced if a reasonable measure of African acquiescence is not forthcoming. This crucial issue need not be decided now.

10.

We propose, with the approval of our colleagues, to introduce the White Paper to Parliament with a statement on the lines of the draft attached (Appendix II).

13TH JUNE, 1952

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CONFIDENTIAL-FINAL REVISE