Show U. U U S S. OWNING WE- WE WEI INDES INDiES WOUlD L. L I. I TO RACE Plan Plait of Britain to Trai Tran Trail Islands Island 0 t to I Plausible Features By Sir Sydney Oli Olivier t f Controller r and of ti t B E Exchequer London May My z With rete n the suggestion that tat Gr Great t Brit Bt should pay part of Its debt par Is t to United States by transferring Ua Is j Indian possessions if I you look ou on the map and at questions o of ot trade Jt t Is b tre easy eay to make out put IQ for tho thc union of ol tho the West Indie w America To people In Great Britain they pear merel merely as a group of or able ablo islands which might as w wear long to America merica as to B Britain T o have too too considerable trade i ship with wih America which may mar te see ece Justify the proposal But all al this l loaves leaves es a out o of ace the psychology and ac sociology o ot Islan Islands s. s It I disregards altogether history of or West Indian life le A j n cannot help thinking th that t tb th 8 1 matters maters of profound which must be taken very I ly into rI consideration r nc J e NatIonal t. t Take Jamaica for Instance instance It I small la Island and but its Is Population IS a little loss Joss than that of or Ne New ZeAl Ne' Ne ea It I has a a. long which 1st IL known to its is people and Is 18 15 err by them them Te They have to a a V very Ia b degree the national sense T eU upon themselves In no fashion both as Jamaicans ante r ri pire members of ot a state In the Emphatically the West Indle wish to be e united with wih an any oth r tion ton The different Islands tf own national sense and I d do not not wh why with wise viso British statesman to gul guide e the development it should i pass into a West Vest Indian national sei tew so that all tho the islands al would be bec i paz part of oC one nation nation nation-a naton-a naton a nation naton h might include British Guiana r aa as a w is Color Colored l Vo Vote Predominate A little while ago I received aoi of oC the recent elections of t members i the thc Jamaica council counci There arc aro 10 teen constituencies in Jam Jamaica ac and all al of oC them tho the black and colored v greatly greaty predominates But the te m hers ers returned were were and were were-d and I 1 speaks r my roy own knowledge of oC the men meat meat-I la cases the best of ot the candidates ze- ze l forward 4 Some Somo of them were wi t ic colored and some black lak In the ci of ot two constituencies where t the bI voters aro are overwhelmingly In hi inthe th the tha x n black candidates were Pt iut I J Iward Jward ward on a racial platform bt butt buti neither caso were they returned J A Athe I the council counci as a It I stands today toay J d c not represent In a fair and ad admira fashion tho different peoples of ofT of Island So long Ions as Great Britain retains West Indies it can cn always them when Vohen other nations are in ta trou tron over o the race question They Tey V study tho the results which have been bee t tamed Merely as aa an e example cample aple ot cL of way in which the relations of ot b bT Wj and white can be arranged the l Indies have a value alue to the which can hardly be bo expressed a terms of ot mone fr money t Color Problem Real R One And of or course America merc is not not- not not- tog together th r happy over the color quest at present That is not a a. mat matter matter which ono cares td to say y muc everybody knows that tho the color Pr loin lem is a aver very real ono one in the ti t tjust Just now And nd It Is at least leat aas that if IC the West Vest Indies were un over to the states the to might th the ft revive in and I n them u. u uj Uj j. j J wills iU Ul IL O t K u US As S s a matter mater of or fact this pr proIx could hardly have ha e come at a 3 m more mott te opportune time There here was wa a titus W li The ho tho West Indies had a n gren against Great Britain The su 65 US bount bounties s did inflict injury upon and they resented it But that t tr trou 1 was removed by the Brussels conY conr tion ton and sinco since then the trade tae rettI rt of the West Indies with Wll Great lt IrI have been compa comparatively comparatively- untroubled u Since the war many English peo 60 ha have ve so 50 to speak discovered the the- theW W Indies This winter more El people navo gono gone to o u e ue JO Jwu M Mever ever before in my my knowledge have simply gone for a holiday hoUdy I man many many- have hae gone bono with wih the tho l Id ca i set settling t 11 a g. g If It the proposal to sell sel th the IsU isa isato to America had been made twenty thirty years cars ago go it might not ni seemed so extraordinary but if If thing Is more ore certain than nth is that thal it would meet today wIth strongest opposition from the peo most roost concerned the concerned the concerned the West est It f themselves I |