Report to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Migration Policy by Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs - 1934

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. pp 93 A report on migration from the United Kingdom to overseas parts of the British Empire (Cmd 4689) presented by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to Parliament, August 1934. In very good condition, in blue printed wrappers, with internal annotations in pencil. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1934