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The announcement by Mr. Creech Jones in the House of Commons on June 25 of the Government's proposal to establish a Colonial Development Corporation marks a definite stage towards the establishment of a new Colonial system aimed at raising the standard of living in British Colonies, which has been implicit in such recent proposals as Dr. E. B. Worthington's Development Plan for Uganda, and the plan for the production of groundnuts in East Africa. The Ground-nut Corporation scheme is concerned primarily with foodstuffs; but its contribution to the raising of the standard of living in Tanganyika, Northern Rhodesia and Kenya may well far outshadow its contribution towards meeting the world shortage of fats. The twenty-five million pounds required for this Corporation is indeed to be provided separately; but it will none the less be as distinct a contribution to Colonial welfare as the capital of £100,000,000 of the Colonial Development Corporation now announced.
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British Colonial Development. Nature 160, 171–173 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160171a0
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