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TO appreciate, on one hand, Great Britain's centuries-old expenence of the Caribbean, and on the other, her difficulty both in maintaining an adequate development of the islands and in beginning the utilization of the mainland interior, is to confront a Colonial paradox. In respect of commerce and industry, as also in matters social and cultural, British Guiana and British Honduras are among the most primitive of British dependencies ; yet there is no safisfactory explanation of their neglected condition save the competition of other tropical lands which, not necessarily more favoured in physical endowment, have yet the advantage of a relatively skilled indigenous or immigrant population.
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West India Royal Commission Report. (Cmd. 6607.) (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1945) See Nature, 157, 254 (1946).
Colonial Office, Report of the British Guiana and British Honduras Settlement Commission. (Cmd. 7533.) Pp. viii + 360. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1948.) 7s. 6d. net.
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FITZGERALD, W. Settlement on the Caribbean Mainland. Nature 163, 512–513 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163512a0
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