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co-ordinator of overseas affaire, generally. He was strongly in favour of the
British Empire on the basis
that the Empire would raise the standard of living in
the colonies and thus in the post-war period was one of
the main architects in
holding the imperial ties together. He reconciled socialism and the
anti-
colonisation doctrine of his political conviction in order to maintain British power
and interests
by establishing the Colombo Plan and by bringing India into the
modern Commonwealth, which was one of
Labour’s and Bevin’s triumphs. At the
same time, as he was vigorously anti-communist, he was also the
main
contributor to the build up of the Western alliance. Bevin achieved a remarkable
rapport with the
Leaders in Western Europe, the Commonwealth, the Third
World, and the North Atlantic alliance.

Jones, Arthur Creech.
Secretary of State for Colonies, 1946-50.

By the
time Attlee came in to power in 1945, Jones was fifty-four and had
a long record of devotion to Colonial
causes. Over many years he had developed
extensive contacts with people in the Colonies. He had been
associated with the
numerous liberal-minded organizations in Britain concerned with Colonial
affairs,
including the Friends of Africa, the Anti-Slavery Society, and the Fabian
Colonial Bureau, of which he had
been chairman since its inception in 1940. For
ten years as a back-bencher, he bad been the principle voice
of the House of
Commons on the Colonies. As a co-opted unofficial adviser on education he had
also had
several years’ experience of the Colonial Office. The specialist
knowledge of Colonial affairs which he
brought to the Office was greater than
that of any previous or subsequent minister. In 1946 when he became
the colonial
Secretary he had already been concentrating on the general problems of the
Empire, mainly
the organisational task of the transition to peace with the view to
the post-war shortages of money and
materials. Creech Jones had always detested
the idea of political and racial domination by the settlers over
natives in Africa.

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