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The Crisis in East Africa

Buell, Raymond Leslie | November 6, 1929 issue

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It sounds sensational to say so, but it is none the less true that within the next few weeks the future of the entire continent of Africa may be decided by the British government British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's Cabinet must decide which of two reports, which of two policies, in regard to East Africa shall be adopted. If the MacDonald Government decides in favor of white settlement in East Africa, it will mean the triumph of the plantation system, under which natives are reduced to wage-earners for white overlords, throughout the continent as a whole.

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PLANTATIONS; RACE discrimination; PRIME ministers -- Great Britain; MACDONALD, James Ramsay, 1866-1937; GOVERNMENT policy; AFRICA, East; GREAT Britain
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