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taken out of their hands and kept in the hands of the Imperial 
Government till a time in the future when the African native is 
sufficiently advanced in intelligence and education to manage his 
own affairs and rule over his own country. This is our present 
judgment, and we are prepared to abide by it. 
Finally in July, 1923, the British Government issued a 
memorandum stating that in African territory the interests 
of the natives must be paramount, and when these interests 
conflict with those of immigrant races, the former must pre- 
vail; that responsible self-government for the colony is out 
of the question; that they cannot grant equal franchise to 
the Indians, but are prepared to grant the Indians five repre- 
sentatives and the Arabs one representative in the legisla- 
ture (compared to eleven whites elected), to be elected upon 
a communal system; that the existing practice of reserving 
the highlands for European settlers must be maintained, but 
that segregation in the municipalities must be abandoned. 
The settlement of the immigration question is postponed; a 
proposal which would maintain the principle of equality is 
that the Indians of the lower classes should be excluded by 
exacting a uniform and rather high fee — say £50 — from 
every immigrant. 
The British Government keeps full control over the gov- 
ernment of the African natives. Its view is that it is more 
disinterested and has a better perspective than have the 
local settlers in considering the conflicting claims of whites, 
Indians, Arabs, and Africans, and that it must control, since 
imperial issues are involved. A Kenya Ordinance of 1920 
provided that idle natives might be drafted to perform paid 
labor for the Government for not more than sixty days a 
year, and instructions had earlier been given to the local 
officers that they should advise the chiefs that it was their 
duty to urge young men to become wage-earners on the 
plantations. These measures led to protests by the local