7, 1939.
OUT
ARD GIRLS SPEND
HOLIDAY.-Enthusias-
of the Civil Air Guard,
y have to spend thtir ad evenings learning to
the Easter holiday as more hours they are This nd in the air.
Chingford (Essex) shows how the girls holiday "on duty" in
en to get to the con-
iastic girl members of ar Guard rush to their
THE
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COLONIES
an annual income of £1,000 each, while 33s. of annual income falls to each of the 120,000 natives..
Behind such instances of exploi- tation lies the picture of a society slowly disintegrating. The popula tion is facing decline more rapidly than our own, for the annual in- crease averaged over twelve colon- ies is only 0.3 per cent, against 0.45 per cent. in England.
One would like to see placarded on every hoarding the table in which Mr. Barnes exhibits all the educational opportunities, official and unofficial, however elementary, that reach the children of the va- rious African colonies in propor- tions that vary from something un- der five per cent, to a startling: maximum (in Basutoland) of some thing under sixty per cent.
The average is nearer the lower end of the scale.
POLICY OUTLINED
I must leave the reader to enjoy for himself the powerful and elo- quent argument by which Mr. Barnes contends that Fascist Im- perialism and our own rest on the same principle. He opposes equal- ly any suggestion of sharing out with the Have-nots our property in human lives and any stone-walling | policy of defending what we have got.
There follows one of the boldest plans I have ever read for liquidat- ing the dependent empire. Mr. Barnes rightly sees India as the central problem. If once we had honestly conceded self-determina- tion there we should have begun to put ourselves. right with the world and our own conscience.
That involves, needless to say, a complete shift in the balance of real power at home. But I am in-: clined to think that he underestim- ates the military danger of the Fascist conquest of an independent] India.
It would be worked, not by frank invasion, but by disintegration from within followed by non-interven- tion.
Again, twenty years seems to me a brief schooltime in which to train This is explained partly by the all the African colonies for fade- terrific infant mortality, but also by pendence. It ought to be done, I the constant drain of male migra- think, in spite of his warnings, on tory labour to mines and planta- an international plan. tions. That, again, has its cause in the deliberately crushing direct which would hand over all profits to royalties, while taxation-for example, £1 a head for African development. may
aid in wages to
the
ns who do the whole
ction.
out of an average natiye income of £3 in British East Africa.
From this cause and also on the concentration upon crops for ex-
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millions to Africans. ribute.
urns out that the 240 ctive in the tobacco in- asaland derive from it
While the new apparatus of qua- si-European government saps the social consciousness of the natives, it gives them in social services only
the most meagre compensations.
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