ABSTRACT

Your Excellencies, I should like with your permission to raise a subject which is not on the Agenda, but is a matter of great concern to three of the Territories represented here and in regard to which the administrative knowledge of those present who represent the other Territories will be of great assistance to us; I mean the question of some form of closer co-ordination by means of administrative organisation, whether it be called “Federation” or “Union”, “Central Executive”, or some other name. I want to raise it in a tentative way and not in detail, but I feel that the remarks of the East Africa Commission1 when they rejected the idea of federation can hardly be considered the last word on the subject.