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dated December 2, 1952: The coloured problem

Recent events in Kenya had provoked strong, concerned comment in the British Press. Britain's Liberal newspaper, the "News Chronicle" said in a leading article that if the Cold War between East and West was the first great problem before the world, the next most anxious one was that of the coloured people.

An inquiry into race relationships launched in Britain under the auspices of Chatham House, headquarters of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, it said, was likely to have far reaching results for the good and observed.

"Unfortunately there is no simple remedy for putting race relationships on a sane and healthy basis. The coloured man is all too often treated as an inferior by the white. This attitude frequently arouses deeper resentment than does actual cruelty. Grave peril implicit in the relationship between black man and white has been brought home to us with dreadful vividness by clashes in Kenya and in South Africa.

But, in many other parts of the world too, the danger is there in an incipient form, and powerful groups accept the dogma of White Superiority (which is as erroneous as it is facile) that the coloured man differs from the white both in physique and character, and particularly in mental power and spiritual qualities.

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