East Africa's investments in Western Regions Province were concentrated in light industry and agriculture. They had indeed promoted local development, but had little impact on the province's overall economic structure.
This system relied almost entirely on East African technology and personnel to operate. Once East African personnel withdrew, its effectiveness would be greatly discounted. The same applied to education and ideology: without corresponding reforms in Western Regions Province, it would be difficult to turn the existing achievements into something of its own.
The Soviet Union offered a useful reference. When the Soviet Union implemented its First Five-Year Plan, its industrial development was marked by chaotic management, severe waste of resources, and poorly qualified workers. By the time of the Second Five-Year Plan, the Soviet government and enterprises had become far more adept.
Even Soviet industrialization had required a long period of adaptation, and that was with a certain industrial foundation and relatively developed education. The predicament facing Western Regions Province would only be greater than the Soviet Union's.
However, East Africa had never intended to thoroughly transform Western Regions Province, so it was hardly surprising that its support remained superficial. It was more like a Western Regions version of the "Self-Strengthening Movement."
After East Africa withdrew from Western Regions Province in the future, at most it would leave behind a group of experienced workers, along with factories and enterprises that could hardly operate independently without reorganization.
Yet such short-lived prosperity was still exceptionally rare and precious for a northwest region like this in the Far East Empire of the 1930s.
October 21, 1936.
As East Africa steadily expanded its influence and military presence across Europe, Africa, and Asia, it also stirred the British's sensitive nerves.
It could be said that Britain feared two countries most at present. Germany undoubtedly