New Dominion?

A potent party of African Negro chiefs, all well and quietly dressed by Bond Street, were received in the Royal Robing Room of the House of Lords last week by Baron Stanley of Alderley.

The black chiefs represented 10,000,000 of His Majesty's subjects. The white baron is Chairman of the joint Parliamentary Commission for East Africa. One fine day the Commission will decide whether Kenya Colony is to be federated with Uganda and Tanganyika, thus creating a new "Dominion of East Africa."

After Lord Stanley had welcomed the Negroes in his native tongue, their leader, Paramount Chief Koinange of the great Kikiyu tribe, replied in his native tongue, an interpreter functioning both ways.

"I think of the Committee as my father," said the Paramount Chief, "but my mother is the land in which I was born.

"If my father--the British Government --were to die, I would cry, but if my mother were to suffer, I would also cry.

"No child feels shy in asking benefits from his father. We wish to live in peace with the English, but in recent times we have had conflict and trouble. I want my father to realize that his children are oppressed."

English employers pay African labor only 10-c- a day for the hardest kind of work, declared the Paramount Chief indignantly "and our people are often punished for breaking laws that they never knew existed."

Of the glamorous project for a "new dominion," Chief Koinange said dryly: "Closer union of the children will do no good unless the father admits them to his councils."

Nothing pleases the English public more than to be called "father" by natives who call themselves "children."

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