§ 44. Mr. Edmund Harveyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many aliens are still interned in Uganda; whether he can give particulars of their nationality; and whether any of them are segregated from others on account of their political views or on other grounds.
§ Colonel StanleyThe total number of aliens interned in Uganda is 1,145. This 1646 total is made up of 967 Italians, 51 Germans, 101 other enemy aliens, 13 non-enemy aliens and 13 stateless persons. All these aliens are housed in one camp, but 940 of the Italians, who were evacuated from Ethiopia and are all males, are confined in a separate section of the camp. There is no other segregation.
§ Mr. HarveyDoes the right hon. Gentleman consider that some further segregation is desirable, in view of the very great difference between these categories?
§ Colonel StanleyI will certainly consider that, but what I am anxious to see more than segregation is the return of these people.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallIs it the Government's purpose to send many of these Italians back to Italy and not back to Nyasaland, Rhodesia and other places where they were picked up?
§ Colonel StanleyI do not think these Italians were picked up there. I think most of them came from Abyssinia.