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I. THE Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, the present Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, is tireless in his pursuit of truth—so tireless that he might be suspected of regarding the machine-phrased memoranda emanating from local governments dealing with their particular problems in the same light as a member of Parliament regards the average answer to a parliamentary question. He has evidently set himself the task of knowing and making known the potentialities of the peoples and the countries for which Great Britain has assumed responsibility in the tropics. In 1922 he accompanied the present Viceroy of India on his tour of the West Indies and British Guiana. In 1924 he was appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to East Africa. At the beginning of this year he set out on a tour of the four British West African territories, the report on which has just been presented to Parliament (Cmd. 2744; 3s. 6d. net).
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West African Development. Nature 118, 613–616 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118613a0
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