COLONIAL OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 275, 14 August 1920, Page 7

COLONIAL OFFICE

'... GENERAL POLICY CIIITICJSED. AIMS OF ADMINISTRATION By TeleEraplft-Prej6 Association-Oopyright London, August 12. Speaking' in tlio Housp of Commons, Colonel Wedgwood (Labour) raised the nuesiiou of Did general' policy of the Colonial Office. He said he feared we had recently, departed from the old traditions. .The Colonial Office had a natural bias in favour of the settler and tho exploitation of countries, rather than for assuming the a.titude of blind justice., of the old Administration. This was 'se'riou'si'in view of the fact that new ooiisfttiitioiis were, granted to British East Africa, -Rhodesia, and Ceylon. . Oilier members followed, speaking 011 similar lines of criticism. ■ -Qjlonel Amery, Under-Secretary for the Colonies; in reply, denied that there, was- any-change in the spirit of the administration. Their goal was to enable every part of the Empire to attain, when tho conditions made it possible, full power to control its own'affairs, and develop its own destinies. . To give complete self-government straight away to communities like the llhodesia and- East Africa Protectorates on any sort of franchise that could he devised 'would not be in the interests of .the mass of tho native population.—Renter. ,