23 AUGUST 1935, Page 6

* * . * • The refusal of the proprietors

of a well-known swimming- pool in Kent to admit coloured bathers is an unpleasant affair. Quite apart from any question of liberal-minded- ness, if ever there was a moment for avoiding such discrimination in the public interest it is today. It is in a sense the proprietor's own affair, but the Southern Railway, which issues joint tickets for travel from London and admission to the pool, ought not to be a party to the ban. I should very much like to see it suspend those facilities unless they are made available to Indian as well as British subjects of King George. Meanwhile I note that the proprietor of another swimming- pool, asked whether he imposed similar racial restrictions, replied tersely, "We are not Germans."