A Plan for Africa
WHEN Lord Lambton writes a memorandunl on Africa, and publishes it with a fore' word by the Marquess of Salisbury, the reader may be excused for expecting a piece of well - reasoned, glib last-ditchery. It comes as an agree. able surprise to find that A Plan for Africa makes the very sensible proposal that a Euro. pean conference should be called to discuss the African situation, and that a common policy for Africa should be worked out, based on the Colombo and Marshall plans, of offering material aid without political strings. But why a pean conference only? True, Lord Lambioa does concede that the US should be asked to join in; but this is clearly only as an afterthought. The conference which he envisages would begni as an organisation of european States; appar- ently they would settle their policies first, and then ask the US in to help pay the bill. But an exclusively European conference must be suspect. A Marshall-style plan for Africa is an admirable notion, but any attempt to initiate it from Europe, with the US merely contributing from the side- lines, would be to condemn it to failure.
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