ABSTRACT
The post-war government of Sir Philip Mitchell failed to develop a political strategy that could effectively meld the economic and political imperatives, and the metropolitan and local pressures that were placed upon it. British policy in the post-war period emphasized the speeding up of economic expansion in the colonies as part of the general recovery program for the British economy. The view of Kenya as a dual economy and society with the European settlers the “modern” and productive group pervades the report. In the late 1940’s Sir Philip Mitchell first announced the goal of creating in Kenya a “multi-racial” society in which to borrow Rhodes’ old dictum, as Mitchell often did, there would be “equal rights for all civilized men.” The failure to develop a coherent political strategy for the multi-racial territories was to lead to a series of crises in the colonies and engender severe conflict over the nature of the imperial response.
