South-West Africa

Our Vice-Chairman has recently visited South Africa, includingthe mandated Territory, and this article represents the greaterpart of a lecture to a combined meeting at the Royal EmpireSociety, with our President, the Earl of Athlone presiding.     

Nigeria

The late Governor gave this address at a joint meeting withthe Royal Empire Society on the 28th January, when Lord Haileywas in the chair, in place of Lord Swinton, who was preventedfrom presiding.     

I. A LIBERAL VIEWPOINT

In anticipation of an early General Election, speakers fromthe three main parties were asked to give their views on Africanadministration at combined meetings of the Royal African andRoyal Empire Societies. The invitation was accepted by LordRennell, who spoke for Liberal opinion on the 28th March, andby Mr. Creech Jones, M.P.,for Labour on the 25th April. ColonelPonsonby, M.P., concluded the survey for the Conservatives onthe 30th May.     

Consistency amid Change

I first came to China in 1982, three years after the reform and opening policy enabled individuals as well as tour groups to travel within the country, My first stop upon disembarking the ship I＇d sailed from Hong Kong to Shanghai was the local police station. There, a local official listed the places I intended visiting on an internal ＂passport.＂ Second was the bank, which exchanged my U.S, dollars for Foreign Exchange Certificates （FEC） - the currency mandatory for buying goods at the state Friendship stores.     

Green,Historical Forward-looking Jincheng

SHANXI Province,at thecenter of the Loess Pla-teau,is the acknowledgedcradle of the Chinese na-tion.Jincheng City in