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/

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