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G. Non-Racial Nature of 0.D.M's proposals/East African Asians.

13. The categories of officers included in the O.D. M.

proposals are those who are covered by a Public Officers

Agreement or, in the absence of such an Agreement, those

who would in the opinion of the Minister of Overseas

Development have been so covered had there been one.

Broadly speaking, its main effect is to exclude indigenous

pensioners and to include "Crown-service" expatriates.

Expatriate Asians of Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar and the Southern

Yemen would be included but not those of the East African

Community and former Tanganyika because the Public Officers

Agreements in the last two cases did not cover them.

14. This is a perfectly defensible criterion to adopt. It

avoids any suggestion of racialism. The Home Office,

however, may argue that any offer to Kenya and Uganda should

be used as a bargaining counter in discussions on immigration.

This is unacceptable to us in principle and likely to be

sterile in practice. To do so would be to attach to aid

overt political strings affecting domestic policy in the

overseas countries. And the end result would only be to

exacerbate a very troublesome situation.

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