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THE developments in the campaign against the tsetse fly in Central Africa, and the recently published report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Swollen Shoot Disease of Cacao in the Gold Cost (see Nature Januray 15 and 22, and February 19) have emphasized the importance of the contribution which science has to make to the health and development of the backward territories, and through them to human welfare generally. Furthermore, the very nature of the latter Commission, consisting as it did of scientific men selected from a list prepared by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, demonstrates the value of international co-operation in this field ; and especially of regional developments, such as the conferences with the French, Belgian and Portuguese Governments, and the discussions with the French Government and other associated Governments on the possibility of co-operation in development schemes to which the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Creech Jones, referred in a House of Commons debate on Colonial affairs last July. Mr. Creech Jones clearly recognized that in such areas as West and Central Africa, co-operation between these Powers in tackling the fundamental problems of Colonial development is all-important.
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Anglo-American Co-Operation in Colonial Development. Nature 163, 301–303 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163301a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163301a0