HC Deb 19 November 1941 vol 376 c358W
Mr. Riley

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that when the West Indian journalists now in this country on the invitation of the British Council arrived in the Bermudas on their way to Great Britain, the coloured journalists were refused accommodation in the hotel in which the white journalists were accommodated; and what action he has taken, or intends to take, regarding such discrimination in the treatment of British subjects?

Mr. George Hall

My Noble Friend learned with the greatest regret of this instance of colour discrimination, and he is communicating with the Governor of Bermuda on the matter. It is the present policy of His Majesty's Government to do all in their power to secure equal treatment, irrespective of colour, for all British subjects of the Colonial Empire.

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