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should be extended to Indians.
In
either any
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case the result could only
the
be that the relations between/Kenya
Europeans and the home Government, a
factor which already seriously complicates
any attempt by the latter to apply a
considered African policy, would suffer a
marked deterioration. If therefore,
the question of an exchange of Notes,
covering the grant of reciprocal rights
between this country and China in the
matter of acquiring real property, comes
to be pursued further, we hope that the
Foreign Office will consider very
carefully whether there is any means of
securing that in doing so we can avoid
raising this awkward dilemma in respect
of the Kenya position.
In the meantime, I am afraid that
ask
the Colonial Office must be that
Lord Cranborne should not be taken as
concurring in the present draft for
the exchange of Notes,or any subsequent draft which may be produced, until he has
had/