SETTLEMENT FOR BUGANDA
BY the time that thisissue appears, the Secretary of State for the Colonies is expected to have announced a successful conclusion to his discussions with the delegations from Buganda. There is said to have been some remarkably skilled bargaining on both sides, as indeed is demonstrated by the withdrawal of some of the members to consult the Lukiko when the pace was becoming too hot. Mr. Lennox-Boyd has every reason to congratulate himself on a settlement which is likely to include an agreed constitution for Buganda, participation by Buganda in the Legislative Council of the Protectorate, and, above all, the return of the Kabaka shortly after the new con- stitution comes into force. The formidable problem of an Asian Minister in the Protectorate is not properly part of negotiations primarily concerned with one province only—in spite of some curiously ill-timed advice on the subject which was proffered last week in the editorial columns of The Times.
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