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EAST AFRICA'S ATT
Tanganyika-to-day is the key of any other country the care of any not the point Africa. The Power that holds of the territories or people for whose They are by Tanganyika controls British Imperial government we are responsible, communications by air, hetween Power
either as a colonial or as a mandatory of the civilis
.. and that view is shared because they north and south, at their narrowest by his Majesty's, Government.
-armed com NERVOUS ATMOSPHERE
point.
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In Kenya, a there exists- - - armed demons
that with the
If friendly with the other Power,
But this, for them, is not enough. namely Italy, whose large military The continual postponement of the and aerial concentrations dominate final decision, which must one day unpredictable, East Africa north of Kenya, the pro- their nerves. In Tanganyika itself be made, is beginning to wear upon prietor of Tanganyika has Kenya al- business is almost at a standstill and so at his mercy, and at the same investment is gun-shy; the infec- time might enable his friend to
tion is spreading to Kenya. There divert enough force effectively to on desperation but clearly moving is a feeling abroad, not yet verging threaten an ill-defended Sudan. that way, that the Imperial Govern- ment must be persuaded to say that it will stick to Tanganyika, and say it soon.
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NEW DEFENCE LEAGUE
These are the fears that lie behind the formation of the Tanganyika League in Tanganyika and Kenya.
GEOR
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Numerically the League is not im- portant, but its strength, like that of the best armies, is less to be East Africa to gauged by its size than by its posi- Europe involvi tion. It represents the mass of Tanganyika wo the British, the British Indian, the and to the shed South African and the Greek com- munities. At the end of August,
AGENTS
To the majority of the Union Cabinet the problem shows another face. While they would not like to see a great foreign Power establish- ed in a territory which is within bombing distance of the Rand, and 1938, there were in Tanganyika 4,240 has between Lakes Tanganyika and
British and British South-African Nyasa a 250-mile frontier with of whom about 1,600 were officials, After the post- Northern Rhodesia, their basic fear
with wives and children), near- until 1925 ther
before
"And the Gern
is that if Tanganyika were trans-ly a thousand Greeks, and about in the Territor ferred it would only be a matter of 80,000 British Indians. In Kenya licence-of-the-G years, perhaps of months,
the corresponding figures are, rough- the discriminato South Africa, forced to yield South-ly 15,000 British and dependable and they began West, were herself absorbed into an European supporters, and 40,000 Gradually they alien trade and propaganda system.
British Indians.
their old plantat ex-enemy proper
Thus of a tot
For the Union Cabinet, therefore,
Clearly these people, who can be the issue raised by Germany's reckoned as supporters of the Tan- Colonial integrity as of practical in- ganika League, do not represent a miles of farm an dependence. South Africa is freer very large part of the population posed of, the to live her own life under the present of the British Empire. But that is had in 1929 on system than under its alternative,
and she knows it.
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The formation of the League by Major Cavendish-Bentinck during the past two months has been the most stirring political event in East Africa since the battle for the white
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I JUST CAME IN-BUT IT'S A GOOD BET HE'S ASLEEP SOME PLACE-
Crowded meeting have been held all over both territories with the object of securing from the Prime Minister, in the words of most.of the resolutions, "an early, open and irrevocable declaration that Tang- anyika Territory for ever remains under the British Flag." The or- ganisers feel that they have gained a certain measure of success in Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's state- ment of Déc. 7 when the Colonial Secretary stated:
I do not believe that there is to-day any section of opinion in this country which, is disposed to hand
WELL I GOT OLIT OF THE HOUSE
WITHOUT HIM SEEIN' ME-
over to
Sunshine is welcomed by the nurses at the Coa
nursery at Uxbridge. It means they can get the p take their young charges for an airing—a pleasant tas morning. Photo shows the pram parade.
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IN.
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