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INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA VISITOR EXPRESSES SURPRISE [from octi o\tk correspondent] DURBAN June 13 Surprise that an Indian in South Africa was not allowed to stay at the best hotels, travel in first-class train compartments, and enter a European cinema was expressed by Sir Thomas Howard Elderton, chairman of the Calcutta Port Trust, on his arrival in the Union from India. In India, said Sir Thomas, a highclass. educated Indian was accepted as a social equal, entertained by and entertaining English notrbles. He entitled to all the privileges of the huropcan. Here the position seemed to be reversed. In India Europeans and Indians travelled in the same trains, in the same compartments, and thought nothing of it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23088, 13 July 1938, Page 10
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