ABSTRACT
The outbreak of war in 1939 came with less shock of impact in Uganda than did the news of the first world war. The purpose of the Council was to provide a small planning staff, drawn from the existing economic organizations, which would deal with the economic and commercial activities of the Conference territories in so far as those activities were directly related to the common war effort. The fundamental distrust of Kenya, and particularly of Kenya's native policy, which had been demonstrated in Uganda whenever the subject of closer union had been raised in the 1920's and 1930's, had by now hardened under the experience of wartime co-operation. The Governor, Sir John Hall, who had taken office in December, 1944, had already sounded the call of the post-war era in an address to the Uganda Education Society on July 26, 1946, when he declared that Primarily the development (of Uganda) must be by the African, for the African'.
