A United States Policy for the New Africa

Vernon McKay resigned as Deputy Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs, September, 1956, to organize a program of African studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D. C. From 1936 to 1945, he taught history at Syracuse University; from 1945 to 1948, he wrote on colonial problems for the Foreign Policy Association; and from 1948 to 1956, he worked on African problems in the Department of State, Office of Dependent Area Affairs. A member of many United States delegations to sessions of the United Nations Trusteeship Council and General Assembly, he has published numerous articles dealing with this area. At present, he is making a sixth trip to Africa on a one-year grant from the Ford Foundation.