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considered in relation not only to Kenya but also to the general political position in India. This discussion continued during the spring and summer of 1921, and in that period also the matter was raised by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Indian Affairs under the chairmanship of Lord Islington. The report of the Committee has been published as House of Commons Paper 177.
10. The more general question of the position of Indians in the Empire came under discussion at the Imperial Conference of 1921. At the final meeting, the following Resolution was adopted:
"The Conference, while reaffirming the resolution of the Imperial War Conference of 1918, that each community of the British Commonwealth should enjoy complete control of the composition of its own population by means of restriction on immigration from any of the other communities, recognises that there is an incongruity between the position of India as an equal member of the British Empire and the existence of disabilities upon British Indians lawfully domiciled in some other parts of the Empire. The Conference accordingly is of the opinion that, in the interests of the solidarity of the British Commonwealth, it is desirable that the rights of such Indians to citizenship should be recognised."
The following observations were appended to the Resolution :-
"The representatives of South Africa regret their inability to accept this resolution in view of the exceptional circumstances of the greater part of the Union."
"The representatives of India, while expressing their appreciation of the acceptance of the resolution recorded above, feel bound to place on record their profound concern at the position of Indians in South Africa, and their hope that by negotiation between the Governments of India and of South Africa some way can be found, as soon as may be, to reach a more satisfactory position."
11. The question of the settlement of the position in Kenya was discussed between Mr. Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Sir Edward Northey, the Governor of Kenya, who was on leave, and when Sir Edward Northey returned to Kenya in September, 1921, he attempted to secure an agreed settlement, but without success.
12. A deputation of Europeans came to England in the following winter, and an Indian deputation, consisting of persons who were already in this country, was also received by the Secretary of State. No progress, however, was made towards a settlement on this occasion.
13. An Interdepartmental Committee, consisting of the Parlia- mentary Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies and for India (The Honourable Edward Wood, M.P., and the Earl Winterton, M.P.), with representatives of the two Offices, met several times
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during the summer with a view to arranging terms which would meet the insistent demands received from India for a full measure of Indian representation in Kenya and at the same time secure a settlement acceptable in Kenya itself. They drew up a report, which was adopted provisionally by the Secretaries of State for reference to the Government of Kenya and the Government of India, in order to obtain a confidential expression of the opinion of both Govern- ments on the proposals.
14. Meanwhile, Sir Robert Coryndon had succeeded Sir Edward Northey as Governor of Kenya, and a telegram was sent to him on the 5th September, 1922, conveying the substance of what is now known as the "Wood-Winterton report." The terms of the proposed settlement as detailed in the telegram were as follows:-
(I) Franchise.-A common electoral roll for all British sub- jects and British protected persons (male or female), aged 21 years and upwards, possessing qualifications which were to be prescribed.
(II) Qualifications.-Either a complete census or a test census to be held in order to determine a method of adjusting qualifica- tions which would approximately result in a ten per cent. Indian electorate. To obtain this percentage it might be necessary to adopt alternative property or educational qualifications instead of a combined qualification. Should the census show that in order to get the ten per cent. the qualification standard would obviously be unreasonably low, reasonable standards would be laid down irrespective of the resulting percentage. Qualifications to be settled in time to enable the new Indian electorate to vote at the general election in March, 1923. European voters already on register would be admitted to the new register whether or not in possession of the new qualifications, but all fresh applicants for registration, whether Europeans not registered under the Legislative Council Ordinance 1919, or Indians, would be required to possess these qualifications.
(III) Constituencies.-The official majority to be retained. Alternative proposals as follows :—
(a) Eleven elected members representing seven constituencies, three of which to return one member and four two members. In the former, European candidates only to be qualified for election in the latter, there would be one European seat and one Indian seat, giving a total of seven Europeans, four Indians.
(b) The India Office suggested that there should be twelve elected members representing four constituencies, each constituency returning three members, or, alterna- tively, eleven elected members, representing four constituencies, of which three would return three members and one would return two members. One seat in each constituency should be Indian, the rest European, giving eight or seven Europeans according
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