Objections \ in Kenya The problems and prospects of inter-racial
adjustment in Kenya may well have obscured the fact that the British community is itself divided on the subject of the Lyttelton settlement. This plan, introducing an African and two Asian Ministers to, the Government with three compensating appoint- ments of Europeans. was accepted after earnest discussion in Nairobi—' accepted,' as Mr. Bltmdell would say, who has been speaking on Kenya's affairs in London : ' imposed,' replies Dr. Christopher Wilson. who has in recent years taken a prominent part in Kenya's affairs but is. a member of no political party and is therefore not bound by the -agreement on a party . truce during the experimental period of the Lyttelton plan. -Dr. Wilson and those who think like him have objections in principle to the multi-racial approach to Kenya's development problems which they hold can only be met in the interests of all at this stage by firm British (local) control of the colony's economy. They object to 'premature' African advancement, but they object still more to the entry into government of the alien Asian clement.' Nobody knows, for Mr. Nehru himself has not really made clear, what Indian policy is in relation to Africa, but there is at least an argument that the Asian element in Kenya would become less 'alien' by being associated with the government of the land they live and work in. There is no doubt, however, that the multi-racial idea is going to be expensive if it is to be fully worked out in a colony already under severe financial strain. Since the European community has always been the: main contributor to Kenya's. revenues. the opponents of the Lyttelton settlement feel that the call for ' a super-Geddes axes is the strongest card in their hands.
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