may 26, 1948 - 1st Session Standing Consultative Commission

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26.-27. May 1948
To alleviate the grievance of the Ewe People, the two Administering Authorities concerned accepted the recommendation of the Council to co-ordinate their activities in certain economic, fiscal and cultural matters which would reduce the difficulties created by the frontier.4 In 1948, the Anglo-French Standing Consultative Commission for Togoland was set up for this purpose. (But it was decided way before Olympio's appearance). But the Ewe people considered these measures inadequate without a political union. The question was, therefore, investigated on the spot by the first Visiting Mission to West-Africa. In its report to the Council in February 1950, the Mission pointed out that the problem of unification "had assumed the character of a popular nationalistic movement." If it were "not satisfied to some appreciable degree, the danger of an intensification of local nationalism ... seems unavoidable."
AEC and CUT boycotted the Commission as a protest against non- implementation of Council's recommendation about equitable representation of all sections of the population and also against handpicked membership

U.N. Doc. T/702, 19 June 1950, pp. 1-4

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