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Memorandum Prepared by the Officer in Charge of West, Central, and East Africa Affairs ( Feld )

political stability in this enormous and diverse area would be very adverse to the interests of the United States. It is obvious that the rapidity with which developments are taking place in the British West African territories of the Gold Coast and Nigeria (population 5,000,000 and 30,000,000 respectively), which are entering on the final stages of constitutional reform leading to complete self-government either within or outside the British Commonwealth, makes it important for the Office of African Affairs to pay much more attention to these two countries in particular and to West Africa in …