The three Members of Parliament, representing the three political parties,
Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Major Church and Mr. Linfield, who were appointed by Mr. Thomas Last July as the " East Africa Commission," have issued an exceedingly interesting Report (Cmd. 2387). Their duty was to visit the Colony of Kenya, the Protectorates of Uganda, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia and the mandated territory of Tanganyika, and to report on a wide and comprehensive range of social and economic questions. It is an unanimous Report to which Mr. Linfield, the Liberal Member, adds a memorandum. He is evidently less well satisfied than his colleagues with the conditions of the natives and thinks that the white settlers should bear a larger share of the taxation. But it must not be thought that he brings any indictment of his countrymen comparable to that of Dr. Norman Leys, whose recently published book roundly condemns the treatment of the natives and sees something very like slavery in the conditions of their labour. * * * *
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