Our African Territories

This article represents the second half of a speech made ata combined meeting with the Royal Empire Society, on the 27thFebruary. Mr. Creech Jones was deputising, at short notice,for his chief, Mr. George Hall, with Lord Harlech in the chair.The first part of the address was devoted to a general statementof British Colonial principles.     

II. LABOUR AND THE COLONIES

This followed an introduction in which Mr. Creech Jones justifiedLabour's critical attitude in the past, and explained that itwas an attitude caused by emotional humanism, political radicalism,economic dislike of imperialism, and Labour's belief in a co-operativeworld.