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THIS book, as explained by Lord Harlech in his introduction, is an “attempt to tell, as straightforwardly and simply as possible, the story of the development of the British Colonial service.” The author has had adifficult task, but has succeeded admirably in condensing into the pagesof a comparatively small volume an immense amount of matter that concerns the Colonial Service.
The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service
By Charles Jeffries. Pp. xxv + 259. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1938.) 10s. 6d. net.
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E., G. The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service. Nature 143, 43–44 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143043a0
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