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DURING the past few years, incidents have occurred from time to time in certain parts of the British Empire which suggest that British administrators are losing their hold on the minds, if not the affections, of the indigenous races of the tropics. There can be no doubt that, if greater insight into the feelings and prejudices of the native races had been shown, recent difficulties in India, Burma, and East and West Africa would not have arisen, or would never have reached such an acute stage. There is no excuse for this state of affairs so far as our relations with the African Negro are concerned, since as a rule he started with a great admiration and friendliness for the European, while the workings of his mind are atune to ours and run to a large extent on parallel lines.
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Native Administration in Africa. Nature 128, 685–687 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128685a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128685a0