§ 1. Major Wallasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will make a statement about his tour in the East African territories.
§ The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)It is difficult to compress within the compass of a Parliamentary answer the impressions that I have formed after five weeks' intensive touring in East Africa.
I have placed in the Library a copy of the statements I made on leaving Nairobi, which cover much of the ground. It has been my purpose to reassure all races in East Africa of the enduring contribution that each will always have to make to the development of the territories.
§ Major WallWhilst congratulating my right hon. Friend on his obvious recovery from his recent operation and on the completion of a most strenuous tour in East Africa, may I ask him whether he would agree to comment on the report in today's Press to the effect that the African members of the Kenya Legislative Council rejected his suggested constitution?
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThere are Questions down actually on the announcement I made in Kenya, and I think, perhaps, I had better leave my comments till then.