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(a) "Police" was specially introduced as a

precaution against bands, etc.

(b) The India office first wanted to add "in

European areas". We pointed out that there

would be no European areas, so the words

dropped out and we have a free hand to

educate the Indian in the poorer quarters

to any standard of living we think fit.

Just

The dropping of residential segregation has

left us a problem, not quite finished with, of

areas developed on the pledge of segregation.

as in towns here you can get a house on a new

"Estate" with confidence that a slaughter house will not be set up on the next plot, so in Nairobi men have bought parts of an "Estate" on the understanding that no Indians need apply. On such areas, we have

Segration

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no option but to maintain the leant it is not a

matter of compensation but of probable injunction.

21.12.45

In Hong Kong the problem is more

that- karawation is acimed

complex

Against Japanese as well as Chinese.

Reply

as perfond, but mis head of

the words in brackets in Ire. Beckett's minute put it that the object of reservation is " to regulate excessor competition for towns in the Peale sishich a to prevent the

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