Abstract
POSTERITY will judge the success of tropical colonization by the condition of the land at the end of the colonizing period. The fire of presently burning political, social and racial questions will be consumed in the fog of history, but the land will retain for all time marks of the treatment it receives. There is little in treatment of land that is likely ever to become front-page news: colonial politics that get into newspapers are mainly concerned with the rights of the people living on the soil or rights to the minerals beneath it. The public does not hear much of the rights of the soil. Hence the indication that at least one important section of officialdom recognizes, and encourages, the recognition of these paramount rights is significant. Evidence that this fundamentally sound point of view is gaining ground is furnished by a recent report of the Conference of Colonial Directors of Agriculture*.
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The Land in Colonial Development. Nature 142, 1135–1136 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421135a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421135a0