A notebook is for things noted. One thing noted this
week is a declaration made last week-end by Lord Francis Scott on behalf of the white settlers in Kenya regarding the reservation of the Highlands for Europeans, to the exclu- sion of Indian as well as African subjects of His Britannic Majesty. " We will not tolerate interference," affirmed -Lord Francis, according to The Times correspondent, " from local Indians, the Government of India or anyone else in that particular question." Or anyone else ? This is not the declaration of a self-governing Dominion ; it is the voice of less than 17,000 Europeans in a Crown Colony the total population of which is over 3,000,000, including an Indian section much outnumbering the Europeans. The Government of India, from whom no interference will be tolerated, speaks for some 350,000,000 people. " Anyone else " means presumably the rest of the Common- wealth. The 17,000 are putting it rather high. * * * *
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