FOR SOME months now Uganda has been listening to rumours
about an impending change of Governor. Sir Andrew Cohen's great popularity there, surviving through various crises, made it particularly important that tact should be exercised in the choice of a successor. It is typical of the Colonel Office ham- fistedness that they should have chosen Sir Frederick Craw- ford. In character and ability Sir Frederick is an excellent choice; but it happens that he has been Deputy Governor of Kenya, and Ugandans of all races are united in a mistrust of anybody tarred with the Kenya colonialist brush. I have no doubt that Sir Frederick will soon banish this mistrust, as far as he personally is concerned; but for the Colonial Office to go against the known wishes of an entire colony in this appoint- ment is not calculated to improve its reputation in Africa.
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