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THE announcement of Lord Moyne's appointment as H.M. Secretary of State for the Colonies in succession to the late Lord Lloyd will be welcome to all who have at heart the future of the populations of Britain's colonial dependencies. His experience both in and out of office when as the Hon. Walter Edward Guinness he sat in the House of Commons, and his first-hand acquaintance with colonial problems, will secure that even the nation's supreme war effort will not be allowed completely to obscure the claims of the populations, and more especially the backward populations, of Britain's colonial dependencies, nor the measures which have already been initiated for raising the standards of living and health to fall entirely into abeyance, however difficult that task may be. It will be remembered that not only was Lord Moyne head of the financial mission which visited Kenya in 1932, but he was also chairman of the Royal Commission which investigated conditions in the West Indies in 1938. It was on the publication of the report of this Commission and largely in consequence of its findings that the Government initiated its present policy of colonial development through liberal grants from the Imperial Exchequer over a period of years. Lord Moyne's first-hand acquaintance with the problems of backward peoples is not, however, limited to his official relations with them. He has travelled extensively in remoter parts of the world, and the ethnographical objects collected by him, more especially in New Guinea, have added valuable material to the national collections in the Ethnographical Galleries of the British Museum.
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Lord Moyne: New Colonial Secretary. Nature 147, 202 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147202a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147202a0