Animals: Jungle into Zoo

The Abyssinian delegate had to consult his government, but representatives of Great Britain, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, the Union of South Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan confidently endorsed the African conservation treaty drawn up last month at their London conference. Last week the conference's U. S. observer, Chairman John Charles Phillips of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, forwarded the treaty to the U. S. State Department for its information. U. S. big-game hunters, trophy dealers and cinematographers scrambled among themselves for copies of the text.

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