ABSTRACT

A recent Labour Circular in the East Africa Protectorate gave rise to considerable disquiet which found expression in a debate in the House of Lords and in representations made directly to your Lordship. A White Paper (Cmd. 873) containing a Despatch to the Governor of the East Africa Protectorate and other papers has now been issued. While the Despatch manifests a genuine desire to meet sympathetically the objections urged against the policy embodied in the Labour Circular, it does not wholly allay the misgiving which was aroused.