During the middle of the 20th century the French reluctantly began to accede to reasonable requests, and in 1946 Comoros had become a separately administered colony from Madagascar.

In 1946, the French National Assembly voted unanimously to transform the colony into an overseas department.

In 1946, the French National Assembly voted unanimously to transform Martinique from a colony of France into a department, known in French as a Département d ' outre-mer or DOM.

* Chad, since 27 October 1946 an overseas territory of France ( part of AEF colony ) under its own Governor, shortly after it was on 28 November 1958 granted autonomy as Republic of Chad, had a single High Commissioner from 22 January 1959: Daniel Marius Doustin ( b. 1920 ) until its 11 August 1960 independence from France.

** 4 December 1958 – 15 July 1960 Ernest de Nattes ( b. 1908 ), the last of the long list of governors since 10 March 1893 ( colony till 27 October 1946, then overseas territory )

* in French Sudan, an overseas territory of France since 27 October 1946 ( earlier a colony ; stayed within French West Africa ), which on 24 November 1958 obtained autonomy ( as Sudanese Republic ), there were two High commissioners:

New Zealand occupied the German colony through 1920, then governed the islands until independence in 1962 as a ( 1 ) League of Nations Class C Mandate and ( 2 ) United Nations Trust Territory after 1946.

From 1946 to 1948, the 11 states formed a single British crown colony known as the Malayan Union.

Although France resumed sovereignty briefly over the colony for a few months at the end of the Second World War the territory was returned to China in early 1946.

Flag of the Post-war Singapore | Crown colony of Singapore from 1946 to 1959

After the war it became a crown colony of Great Britain from 1946 to 1963, known in this time as British North Borneo.

The territory was placed under control of the colonial office, and became a British crown colony on 15 July 1946 together with islands of Labuan.

The provinces were created in 1946, when Madagascar was a French colony.

Gordon Macdonald, PC, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, ( 27 May 1888 – 20 January 1966 ) was a British Labour Party politician and Newfoundland's final British governor as well as the last chairman of the Commission of Government serving from 1946 until the colony joined Confederation in 1949 and became a province of Canada.

Established after the French signed various treaties between 1883 and 1887 with the then ruling Somali Sultans, the colony lasted from 1896 until 1946, when it became an overseas territory of France.

New Zealand occupied the German colony through 1920, then governed the western islands until independence in 1962 as a ( 1 ) League of Nations Class C Mandate and ( 2 ) United Nations Trust Territory after 1946.

The Kolleru Lake colony was discovered by K K Neelakantan in 1946.

He was born in Saint-Denis, in the French island of Réunion, then still a colony ( it became an overseas department in 1946 ).

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry ( born March 6, 1946 in Cameroon, then a French colony ), is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut.

The colony was invaded and taken over by Japan in February 1943, taken back by France in 1945, and finally returned to China in 1946, at which point its original name of Zhanjiang was restored.

Exploration in Algeria, then a French colony, began in 1946, with Algeria becoming a leading source of oil in the 1950s.

Vyner returned to Sarawak on 15 April 1946 and temporarily resumed as Rajah, until 1 July 1946 when he ceded Sarawak to the British government as a crown colony, thus ending White Rajah rule in Sarawak.

Sets of stamps in 1946 and 1948 commemorated notable historical figures related to the colony.

* 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Algeria in North Africa ( independent since 1962 ), Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, French Guiana in South America, and Réunion in the Indian Ocean were defined as overseas departments.

Guadeloupe ( Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre ), along with its dependencies ( Marie-Galante, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy, Les Saintes and la Désirade ), has been a French overseas department since 1946 and a single-department region since 1982.

About 90 % of the world's extractable amber is still located in that area, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 1946.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

August A. Busch Jr. became president of Anheuser-Busch in 1946 and began the creation of a national network of breweries.

* Commonwealth of the Philippines — formed in 1934, and became independent in 1946.

Diplomatic relations between the Egyptian and Jordanian government existed since Jordan became independent in 1946.

The relationship between England and FIFA became strained and this resulted in their departure from FIFA in 1928, before rejoining in 1946.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

French Guiana became an overseas département of France on 19 March 1946.

In 1946, another of Zahir Shah's uncles, Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan, became Prime Minister and began an experiment allowing greater political freedom, but reversed the policy when it went further than he expected.

In 1903, Letchworth became the world's first garden city and Stevenage became the first town to redevelop under the New Towns Act 1946.

Hanover was in the United Kingdom zone of occupation of Germany after the war, and became part of the new state ( Land ) of Lower Saxony in 1946.

The ILO became the first specialized agency of the United Nations system after the demise of the League in 1946.

In 1946, the ILO became the first specialized agency of the newly-formed United Nations.

In 1944 Thuku founded and was first chairman of the multi-tribal Kenya African Study Union ( KASU ), which in 1946 became the Kenya African Union ( KAU ).

After the demise of the League, the ILO became an agency of the United Nations in 1946.

The principal Allies in the Second World War ( the UK, the USSR, France, the US, and the Republic of China ) became permanent members of the UN Security Council in 1946.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

It became a United Nations Trust Territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

* former German New Guinea became the Territory of New Guinea ( Australia / United Kingdom ) from 17 December 1920 under a ( at first Military ) Administrator ; after ( wartime ) Japanese / U. S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea ( under Australia, as administrative unit ), until it became part of present Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975

It eventually became the independent Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan ( later Jordan ) on 25 May 1946.