The true line of policy is indicated in the Mandates -
system of the League, the principles of which, namely, trusteeship for the- natives; have been accepted as the basis of Imperial policy: One sentence in the South African protest is peculiarly. appropriate—" The import- ance of the Cape system is that it opens to the developed native the door to full citizenship in his .own country." (The italics are ours.) On that principle all who have the best interests of the Dominion at heart should take their stand. Incidentally, more harm than good is caused, at the moment by associating. South Africa's problem with Great Britain's difficulties in Kenya— cognate though they are—as Lord Olivier and others seemed so anxious to do at the meeting of the Anti- Slavery Society on Monday. We may usefully take note of the sharp reply by the High Commissioner for South_ Africa, who made a point of being present.
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