SHAPING OF BRITISH PLAN TO AID SOUTH-EAST ASIA
LONDON. Sept. 6 (Reed. 6pm).— Officials and experts from all British Commonwealth countries, except South Africa, will open a conference in London today to draw up a six-year economic development plan for SouthEast Asia to be financed, if possible, wholly through Commonwealth resources. The experts will co-ordinate the heme suggested by individual counties into a single report for a Commonwealth Ministerial Conference on
September 25. With only a few hours left befon the start of the meeting, programme and aid they required were still await ed from Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Indonesia. After the conference’s preliminary work, Commonwealth Ministers andelegates from the interested South East Asian countries will finally nice on October 2, to approve the plat which is expected to be in operatic: by June, 1951.- Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 September 1950, Page 5
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