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Sir W. Battershill.
Mr. G. L. M. Clauson.
Mr. C. J. Jeffries.
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H. Ashley Clarke, Esq., Foreign Office.
FURTHER ACTION.
Copy to go on Kenya
file about reservation of the Highlands.
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Sir J. Shuckburgh.
X Permt. U.S. of S. 21° 11 at ame.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
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Dear Ashley Clarke,
62
70
.Downing Street.
November, 1942.
It was suggested & the meeting on the
18th of November, about the draft Treaty with
China, that I should let you have, for purposes
of record, a note on the special point which
arises regarding Kenya.
The ownership of land in the Highlands
area of Kenya is reserved to Europeans under a
policy which dates from the earliest settlement'
at the beginning of this century, and which has
been accepted by successive British Governments.
There is, for those who wish to pursue the
subject, an account of this questions on
pages 15 to 17 of the memorandum "Indians in
Cmd.. Kenya" presented to Parliament in 1933, C.M.D.
There is a large Indian population in
1922).
the Colony, and the European settlers have
always been apprehensive that the admission of
Indians to land owning in the Highlands area
would destroy the social and economic basis on
which it is hoped to build up an East African
territory under European leadership, as has been
done for example in Southern Rhodesia.
Kenya lies, of course, within the "Congo
Basin" and any formal discrimination against
non-Europeans in the acquisition of land would
conflict/
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.