Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-05
Grave Problems to Be Considered
AT Imperial Congress in London
ny THE MARauIsE DE FoNTENoY.

by THE MARQUIsE DE FONTENoY.
In October an imperial congress
will take place in London which Is
to be attended by the prime min
listers Of all the great self-govern-
ing donninions and commonwealths
subject to the sovereignty or the
British crown, a congress at whlch
the refusal OF the South African
| Union and Of the Australian and New
Zealand. commemorative to consider
themselves bound by any treaty or
agreement which. the Dominion of
|. Canada may make with the, United
States viii be taken up, discussed
land settled. -
The United States government very
NATURALLY --he estates about signing
Il subjecta to. senatorial ratification
treaty with any sef Rgi,;sh emn dee
which is not binding upon every por-
| ton of that empire, and until some
| solution is found by the Engllsh
crown and it's self-goyernlng depend
| encies for this purely British en-
I pire issue. foreign powers, such as
| the United States. will be reluctant
| to conclude any treaties with THESE
! individual colonies. or to accord them
| full diplomatic rights and privileges
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At this imperial congress a num-.
| Der Of other issues will come up Tor
| discussion, notably that in connec-
/ ton with the pretensions of Indian
! natives of the most unsatisfactory
| class. not only to free immigration
| into British Africa, but to the same
| rights there as the whites. the Eng
1 fish and the Africanders-that Is.
white settlers Of old Dutch origin
| and superiority over the African
natives, even those of the best and
most civilized class.
| These pretensions on the part OF
| the Indian nationalists are resisted
| to the utmost by Jan SHUTS. the
| premier of the British South African
EUnion, the conQueror OF the former
4 German East African territory and
the most powerful figure in connec-
| ton with the entire African situa-
| ton His views are strongly in
| dorsed by the whole white popula-
| ton of Africa, and especially in that
| eastern portion : thereof known as
Kenya, where the whites have been
soIemnly guaranteed by the imperial
| government in London in time past
! that no legislative rights and no
| equality of status with the whites
should be accorded to Indian immi-
| capitally with the natives. whose
| moral and material welfare and
whose enlightenment they are stead
| lily endeavoring to improve. But the
with the blacks: Indeed, 1t is only
| the presence of the whites which
! prevents a black rising against the
indians. whose disposition is to de
grade, demoralize and Cypress the
African natives, rather than to help
| them on the road to civilization. The
Indian nationalists. among them that
anti English Indian demagogue. Siniv-
| rasi Sastri from Madras, whom the
FORMER British government in a mo-
! of its. delegates to the armament
| congress at Washington. where he
, took advantage Of his presence in
the United States to deliver a num- mum.
against the rule of the British crown
In India, has openly proclaimed the
! intention OF Indian nationalists' to
empty all of their surplus population
into Africa, and to make Africa by
sheer weight of numbers a COLONY Of
India and subject to the ishort-sight-
! ed. uneducated despotism of half
baked Indian denagogues. Instead of
| white mans. elf-governing Brit
ish dependency:
|
It is to be. feared that Lord Reading
will indorse the views of the Indian
tnationalists on the subject Of Indian
indiscriminate immigration to Africa,
the Kenya colony problem and the
question of increased Inflammation of
the British civil and military admin
istration of the Indian empire. For
1t has. been officially announced. that
he is to attend the imperial confer
! ence in London in October in order
| to represent the views Of the Indian
nationalist both as regards Africa
and the lIndfapization of the British
services in India.
Now Lord Beading, whose eIo-
uuence and persuasiveness are I'M
deniable and who is a most powerful
advocate OF any cause that he I'M
l-dertakes, has only been two years
in India as viceroy. He wus appoint
ed In 19cltfor the usual term OF five
1 years and he is precluded-by statute
\ from leaving India during his term
under the pain of FORGETTING his Office
Ia statute enacted by parliament at
Westminster in the times when Brit
ish governors and colonial admin
Ifstrators and officials were wont to
spend most of their. fern4 OF Office at
thome while drawing there the lucra-
tive emoluments of their oversee
Offices. 1t has long been known that