Abstract
THE fifth report from the Select Committee on Estimates for the Session 1947-48 (London: H.M. Stationery Office), with its forthright comments on Colonial development, makes its appearance at an appropriate moment. It is based in part on the observations of some of its members as a result of a visit to. West Africa, and it has some relevance to the report, published later, of the commission of inquiry into the disturbances and underlying causes of these disturbances in the Gold Coast during February and March of this year. The recommendations and conclusions are equally of interest in relation to the recent report on "Colonial Research 1947-48". They emphasize the value and importance of the work being done by the Colonial Research Council, which has now replaced the Colonial Research Committee, and by the Colonial Products Research Council, the Colonial Social Science Research Council and the committees responsible for medical research, insecticide research, agricultural, animal health and forestry research, as well as the urgent need for the Colonial Economic Research Committee to function effectively.
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Aspects of Colonial Development. Nature 162, 547–550 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162547a0
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