 However, many of the Moyne Commission's recommendations were not immediately implemented because of the outbreak of World War II and because of British opposition.With the fighting far away, the period of World War II in British Guiana was marked by continuing political reform and improvements to the national infrastructure.The governor, Sir Gordon Lethem, created the country's first Ten-Year Development Plan (led by Sir Oscar Spencer, the Economic Adviser to the Governor and Alfred P. Thorne, Assistant to the Economic Adviser), reduced property qualifications for office holding and voting, and made elective members a majority on the Legislative Council in 1943.