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10/30/1949 - Untitled by John B. George

INSTITUTE OF CUKKENT FOR LD AFFAIIS J Longwall Street 0xford England October Dear Mr Rogers Things still going Perhaps heard Mr Moe I being accepted New College official doors remain opened In matter unofficial contacts progress being I leave Oxford spend necessary calling Dr Margaret Read others suggested Mr Stackpole Professor Herskovitz other Colonial Service students others African areas doing A number things going around University which interesting There several regional societies which regularly discuss political problems related their areas A criticism apparently candid nature often expressed these meetings Native Colonial interests Just sitting listening gather quite ideas Native Settler conflict other issues One society East Africa Association small organization about thirty active members meeting every weeks The guest speaker meeting EAA former Masai tribesman Hon Ohanga L C His speech turned unexpectedly seems diatribe against indiginous peoples Kenya He began damning Indians being emtirely grasping enterprising nothing order small amount eapitol whimh would promptly purposes exploiting Native Africans The lmdiau Mr 0hanga asserted comes Kenya small hammer squats begins break stones years everything sight And Native Next indicted theEuropeans naming grasping labor persecuting farmers exploiting industriali saving bureaucrats Civil Service intending misguided missionaries Themissionaries hesaid aretheonlyEuropeanswho really livewith learn Natives great The Europeans themselves entirely segregated apart reserves INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS African villager could European would White areas himself houseboy Ohanga voice speech words themselves marne sound rather hysterical accent reminiscent North Burma tribesman mission converted headhunting practices became progressively thick From would reach trousers tightly cloth But despite seemed points especially after began flaws Settlers latest Kenya Plan He employed arguments whieh Margery Per published correspendence Elspeth Huxley calling device entrenchment immoderate White supremacy His allotted before would things about Settlers immediately cohallenged every point color tints audience Settlers settler wives daughters Indians Africans wanted blazes meant dishing these misrepresentations statistical distortions I sitting center small reception office British Council arguments criss cross above In minutes I about really controversial issues East Africa I could gather month reading The meeting enough ademic tincture notebooks brought Scribbling abled unobtrusive If known American maybe wouldn noise The seemed reserved When I introduced around after Mr Ohanga answer questions smiling shrugging I found myself singled special atten It turning treatment similar given friend after proposed resolution against deceptive advertising manufacturer conference All people taken themselves hospitable their American acquaintance incidentally taken Ohanga rsdical propaganda They given another month reading worth arguments statistics fvoring Settler condemning destructive Communist criticism irresponsible native representatives It already dozen drinks INSTITUTE OF CUKIENT WOKLD AFFAIR S prties dinner I having tomorrow Aud I surge hospitality going never fully convinced Hon Mr Ohanga On serious I finding information convehiently concentrated largely current available through personal contacts colonial officials enjoying imprisonment University libraries files offlcal papers It takes books informed people though I ering about wisdom curbing hurry spending three terms first hitch One thing which already seems certain I reasonable grasp obviously useful elements single Prof Evans Pritchard basic course Social Anthropology series lectures Colonial History called African Circus class lecture Commonwealth History under Prof Wheare lecture Primitive Economics Prof Frankel another Evans Pritchard lecture African Tribes reading tutorial assignments Mr Robinson pretty crammed If X squeeze lessons Swa I might budget stringently hours I spend learning horse Yours sincerely PS Could think appropriate special point telling admittance college entirely Veale Robinson I rested letters suggestions University asked merely accepted gratefully given I would influence there since I thorough under standing Moe Veale relationship I would risked placing Mr Moe under undue obligation Mr Moe letter Mr Veale remember admitted Im possibilit getting college Received New York