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Overseas Resources Development Bill

Volume 443: debated on Thursday 23 October 1947

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"to provide for the establishment of a Colonial Development Corporation charged with duties for securing development in colonial territories, and for the establishment of an Overseas Food Corporation charged with duties for securing the production or processing of foodstuffs or other products in places outside the United Kingdom, and the marketing thereof, and for matters connected therewith," presented by Mr. Strachey; supported by Mr. Bevin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Mr. Creech Jones and Mr. Noel-Baker; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 5.]