Evening star., 1923-05-10
Sir w. H. Mcmillan. American Born.
Faces Racial light in East Africa

mere and his associates put forth. and
with which the former governor of
The colony. Maj Gen. Sir Edward
Northey, wholly identified himself are
that the British empire is SO far from
homoreneous. that. therefore. il is
idle to assume that the citizens Of
one part thereof are qualified by ira
dition and temperament to govern
thos" Of any other part: that no claim
for Indians in Africa. can be put for
ward which cannot with far greater
force be advanced for Africans in
their own country; that Indians have
as ii historical fact. no experience in
coloniZinE, that only in quite recent
times and not Yet completely have
Indians faced the responsibilities of
Self-goVernment under British rule,
therefore. il would be natural that eXpe-
rlence in governing themselves should
precede any experiment in their attempt
to govern the African races: that In
dians in East Africa have thus far
shown no aptitude or desire to teach
or upl!ft the native races and their
300 years of intercourse with them
on the coast have left little or no
mark on the native African popuIa-
ton: that India has no responsibility
for East Africa.
If there has been a deficit, British
capital has made it good If there is
any rising. British forces have been
and are responsible for keeping order
=
Is no corresponding responsibility.
Lord Delamere and his associates
add that Indians represent a radically
different civilization. 1t is not neces-
Sary TO assume that il is a lower
civilization. 1t is more ancient than
ours. and il is essentially different
ards and outlook are all radically diff
ferent from those of Great Britain:
that it would be impossible for repre-
sentatives of two so completely diff
ferent civilizations conjointly to ad-
minister African races alien to both
Lord Delamere and his friends in
sist. moreover, that segregation is
virtually imperative. 1t does not
necessarily imply inferiority. The
Chinese confine Europeans TO their
own quarters in many of their cities
and towns. White people are excluded
from certain towns in Nigeria. Euro
pean settlers are barred in just the
same way white folks are denied ad-
mittance to certain Indian reserva-
tionS in America, from native re-
serves in Kenya. When two races
differ widely in language. habit and
tradition. it is better from the point
of view of either that they should oc-
cupy distinct and separate areas.
Where they differ as widely as do
the respective civilizations of Eu-
rope. Asia and Africa, it is necessary
on sanitary, social, moral. and even
on religious grounds. that each
should occupy their won area. The
Indians rigidly observe the princi-
pie of segregation in their own caste
system, in India. They themselves
ricans shall be segregated from the
Indian community. But, they saw
agely resent and bitterly oppose their
own segregation from the white COM
munities as inconsistent with the
status of complete equality.
1t must be confessed that all the
arguments are in favor of the atti-
tude of Lord Delamere and of his fell
low white colonists of Kenya, who
insist on Indian segregation. and
upon the refusal of their admission
to ELECTORAL franchise. What is
more, they have announced to the
imperial government that they are
determined to fight for their con-
tention and for the defense Of their
homes from being swamped by
Indians-if necessary, by force of
arms-even If it entails secession from
the empire.
Lord Delamere is the head of the
ancient house of Cholmondeley of
Vale Royal, to which Miss Mary Chol-
mondeley, the author of Red Pot
tage," and of other well-known
novels, belongs. The Marquis Of
Cholmondeley Is head of the junior
branch of the family. In England.
Lord Delamere owns some 10000
acres of the finest land in Cheshire,
while in East Africa, his ranches ex-
tend over tract of half a million
acres. He spends the greater portion
of each year there with his only son.