Abstract
IT has sometimes been questioned by purists in British constitutional practice whether it is advisable that the ministers of His Majesty's Government in charge of Departments of State should have personal experience of conditions in the affairs they are called upon to administer. Whichever way opinion may incline, it is patent that Mr. Ormsby-Gore's tenure of office will afford concrete material for judgment. His knowledge of conditions in the British dependencies is greater than that of any previous holder of the office of Colonial Secretary, and has been approached by none since the days of Joseph Chamberlain. Mr. Ormsby-Gore does not propose to allow his knowledge to lie fallow; and already both in matters which have arisen under his jurisdiction and in those which he has inherited from his predecessor in office, it has enabled him to show a ready appreciation of the necessity for prompt action and a strong forward policy in native affairs in Africa to remedy or to forestall the dangers, to which he is fully alive, arising out of the dislocation threatening the welfare of African peoples in the present rapid development of economic and social circumstances.
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