Show jf socialist rules Britis hers except in the great self governing colonies like canada and new zealand politics counts for little or nothing in appointments in the british colonial service the colonial office usually selects the best administrator available whatever may be his political creed thus it comes about thai the present conservative government has made an ardent socialist in the person of sydney olivier C M G the practical ruler of jamaica british west indies he i not the governor of the island but the colonial secretary the gov erners grand vizier but he has far more real power than the governor he is practically a despotic ruler for jamaica is autocratically governed under a mask of representative institutions when he received the appointment mr olivier held a high position n the colonial office and was also the sec rotary of the fabian society one of the leading socialist organizations in england two other prominent members of that society mr H M hynd man and mr sidney webb hold positions under En glands government and so do many other avowed socialists all that is required of them it that they shall not be socialists during office hours |