2 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 4

It was surely a very remarkable doctrine which the Manchester

Guardian enunciated on Monday when it observed, in con- nection with the new Cabinet appointments, that " the Colonial Office does not seem, to offer in itself muck_scope for Mr. Lyttelton." Not much scope ? Malaya ? Gold Coast ? Nigeria ? Hong Kong ? Northern Rhodesia and' Nyasaland and Central African federation ? Kenya and Tanganyika and Uganda, including the proposed new constitution for Tangan- yllca ? The whole of the West Indian colonies ? Perhaps the supreme problem in the British Commonwealth is that of school- ing the African colonies into efficient and contented self-govern- ment within the Commonwealth. If that is not scope, it is a bit difficult to know what scope means. * - * *