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IN a recently published work by a resident in East Africa of many years' standing, it is stated that the native regards with profound mistrust all white men excepting only British officials and missionaries. This observation, perhaps a little too sweeping and perhaps too flattering to our vanity if assumed to be of universal application, lends support to the view, with which we have been made familiar since the British Empire became self-conscious, that members of the British race are pre-eminently successful as settlers and administrators in strange lands. In so far as this is borne out by the facts, it is in large part due to a certain ability to handle a backward people with a degree of sympathetic understanding. Although it is true that the British record in this matter has not been spotless in the past, and even now is not always above reproach, yet judged by results our methods may perhaps bear comparison, not entirely to their disadvantage, with those of other nationalities.
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Ethnographical Studies and Colonial Administration. Nature 117, 745–746 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117745a0
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