RUSSIA ATTACKS BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY IN AFRICA

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 5

RUSSIA ATTACKS BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY IN AFRICA

PARIS, October 12.

, Britain had imposed an unnatural economy” on her African colonies with the aid of police forces said Mr A. I. Galagan (Ukraine) in a debate on the report on non-self-governing territories in the General Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. He claimed that the large crops of cocoa, cotton, palm-oil and ground nuts being grown in West Africa were not of interest to the native populations, but were “purely developed for export at the expense of their indigenous cultures.” Mr Galagan expressed alarm at the “rate at which American concerns were peentrating into the Belgian Congo’s iron ore”. He added: “Foreign ” monopolies are extending their activities and subjugating the interests of the antive populations, who receive only a few coppers in return.” U.S. NEGROES

Mr Pavlov (Russia), during the Social Committee debate on human rights, assailed the “terrorism of the negroes” in the United States, the alleged oppression of Indian minorities in South Africa and the “dis crimination against natives” in the British colonial territories.

The Social Committee voted 26 to none, with eight abstentons. on the first article of the human rights declaration, stating that all humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights.