26 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 3

Ile referred, of course, to the declaration by the Duke

of evonshire, who was then Colonial Secretary, that the terests of the African natives must be paramount and at as His Majesty's Government regarded themselves exercising a trust they must insist upon performing duties of trusteeship through their own agents and old not delegate them to persons elected in the Colony. other words the Government saw clearly that Kenya, ith its mixture of Indians and Arabs, a huge native pulation and a handful of white .settlers, must remain, far as one can see ahead, a Crown Colony. The Arch- shop of Canterbury, however, though he emphatically ipported this Imperial method, deplored the amount of perfluous and ignorant interference from which the may continually suffers.

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