Colonial Bureau organization

“The Colonial Bureau, already mentioned, had been established in October 1940…”

“The Colonial Bureau... had been established in October 1940, with a committee of its own of which Creech Jones was chairman…”

“In 1941 the formation of a Nigerian Fabian Society was announced…”

“Lord Faringdon, a strong supporter from its inception and after 1951 its chairman…”

“a much deeper study was that of the possibilities of co-operation, which was initiated in the first year with the aid of C. F. Strickland…”

“Dr. Rita Hinden, who originated the idea of the Bureau…”

“Dr. Rita Hinden, who originated the idea of the Bureau and was its paid secretary for ten years and its honorary secretary for four more…”

“came out in 1945 as a book, Co-operation in the Colonies…”

“Local Government in the Colonies followed it in 1950…”

“Labour and the Colonies was one of the Bureau’s first pamphlets…”

“There was, for one thing, occasional friction within the Fabian Society itself, whose officers sometimes complained that the workers in the Bureau mistook a highly efficient section of the Society for the Society itself…”

“when the Colonial Development Council was formed in 1948 three members of the Bureau’s Advisory Committee, together with the Secretary, were made members of it.…”

“This important addition to the sums already available from educational charities mentioned in earlier chapters was enhanced by an annual subvention given by the Labour Party towards the work of the Colonial Bureau…”