We have written elsewhere on the delicate problems which are
raised by some of the settlers in Kenya. These settlers have already held an unofficial Conference and informed the Secretary of State that the Government's policy is unacceptable, and is a breach of pledges. They resent the term "immigrant community" as applied to themselves, and they repudiate the right of Indian immigrants to participate on the same basis as Europeans in the government of East Africa—an attitude which is contrary to the Government's evident purpose of giving to Indians their full status in the Empire. More important, perhaps, will be the reaction of the expert Permanent Mandates Commission in Geneva. Although there is a specific provision permitting the integration of Mandated and non-Mandated territories for the co-ordination of business services, a certain amount of opposition has been manifest, led, of course, by Germany.
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