SCHEME FOR AFRICA
REGIONAL COUNCIL PLAN (9 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Apart from ’decisions on wider issuCs, the South Africans are looking to the conference of Prime Ministers in London to take a stage further the idea of a regional council for Africa on the lines similar to councils DfOpO’Sed for the Pacific and the Oar ibbeari. says' the Daily Telegraphs Capetown correspondent. A regional cohficil for all the African States south of the Sahara would involve thb Governments of the United Kingdom, Prance, Belgium, Portugal, Southern Rhodesia and the Union ol Sdcfth Africa, but the approval of the British Government is obviously necessary in view of the large British territories involved. • scope for common action for an African regional council will probably be discussed at the London conference in co-operation with the interAllied States. Africa has been closer than ever during the war and it is felt in South Africa that this should continue after the War. It is also felt that there is plenty of scope through the proposed regional council for common, action on such matters as mall, , air communications, health, shipping; veterinary services, currency, scientific research and native affairs, '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 4
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