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Show Britain Looking fo United States for Help In Development of Africa's Natural Wealth LONDON. British socialist planners hope American private capital and technical experts will help in developing Britain's African wealth. Their hones are based on President Truman's DroDOsal to One-third of the fund finances the Overseas Food Corp., which has such projects under its wing as the big peanut growing project in East Africa. Two-thirds of it backs the Colonial Development Corp., a government-sponsored body which can either develop resources on its own hook or put money behind private enterprise which tackles the job. Neither of these corporations is limited to Africa alone. They spread their activities through all the British colonies, but Africa is their concentrated hope for the future. Antrycide, a drug discovered recently re-cently by British researchers, offers of-fers hope of making Africa a heavy meat producer for food importing im-porting Britain and the remainder of Western Europe. It's still untried, un-tried, however, and Colonial Office experts advise against expecting any spectacular results. It's a long term project, and even if the drug works as it is touted, they don't expect fruitful results for a good many years. Antrycide counters trypanosoma-sis, trypanosoma-sis, or sleeping t'.kness, which makes large areas of Africa uninhabitable un-inhabitable for either men or domesticated do-mesticated animals. Malaria is another ill that must be overcome before certain parts of Africa can be put to use. put American "know how" into pio- neering prosperity from the world's backward areas. But even if American money and brains are forthcoming, Britain intends in-tends to make haste slowly. The reason: British experts fear that too speedly development might result re-sult in political turmoil. A political planner in the colonial office believes that Britain probably prob-ably will have to let go its East African colonies within 25 or 30 years, even in the best circumstances. circum-stances. The same thing, he believes, be-lieves, will come to pass even sooner soon-er on the West African Gold Coast, where political riots already have taken place. This same attitude is reflected in the colonial section of Britain's new four-year plan for recovery submitted to the organization for European economic cooperation. If investment is "pushed too far too fast," the plan statement said, "it would give rise to conditions that have the gravest consequences to social welfare and stability." In short, there are agitators who could profit from inciting Africans with talk of "exploitation by capitalistic capi-talistic imperialists." If development develop-ment schemes are carried out in a J , go. Large deposits of lead have been found, but only a few are being be-ing worked. Africa probably contains little oil. But nobody knows. Geologic and geodetic surveys are needed. Railroads await surveying. Those are some of the things where the British believe that American technicians tech-nicians can help. The British would be pleased to carry out these projects all by themselves. But they lack both the capital and the technical experts. Capital was sold of! during the war. A six years' crop of technicians techni-cians from the universities also was lopped oft by having to fight. That's why an economic expert In the colonial office says: "We would welcome American investment invest-ment and technicians in Africa." Meanwhile, Britain is pressing the United States to use $6,000,000 under the European Recovery Program Pro-gram to begin surveying Africa resources re-sources more definitely, building roads and railroads. Along with such dollar help as they may receive, re-ceive, they already are functioning on a 150,000,000 ($600,000,000) appropriation ap-propriation of their own. way 10 mane mis appear 10 oe partly part-ly logical to the workmen, riots and rebellion are likely to wreck the best laid plans. Groundwork Needed Another stumbling block is the immense volume of groundwork that must be done in Africa before there is much payoff. "A high proportion pro-portion of investment must be concentrated con-centrated on basic services, on health and education, on transport, irrigation and water supplies, and research," says the four-year plan. Roads and railroads must be built. Even now peanuts, to supply badly needed oil, rot in West Africa because there isn't enough transport trans-port to haul them out. More than that, nobody yet knows what kind of mineral wealth there is in Africa, nor where it can be found. 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