GOVERNOR ON THE MAT?
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Receivedi Monday. 13.10, a.mt LONDbNj P^eb. 13. . In „an optspoken infefview ih tK§Junday I^espateh/ Earl Bald.win, GdvernojE' oi, /the , Leew'ard islancis, Ivhom ihe Golonial. SeCrefary, Mr. Creeeh Jpnes,- askea . to cbme to. Leiidori for, eonsiiitatiohs, said;: "f aaA be saeked:" .The pipe srripking bacheldr soh o| the late Prime. Mimster, Mr. fetaniey Baldwin, said iie cSuld' hot discus's. the reason for Jiis re.call "but I know the white higger ih Ihe wbbdpile." Hfei wfeht bh: "¥bd see I have always tried to be, h-uman and. they say.it lacks dignity." ~ Of the . white population of the Leewar'd islahds, which he claifhed did ndt approve of his polic'ies, Mr. Baldwin said1: "I rie'vet mdt k Tory in my life so reactiondry as some of the white people1 there. They just don't. exist elsewhere." He said the. islaniders' demonstratidn at the quay when he . left was "heartbreaking.'' Sihc'e his dbpdrture, th8 wbfkefs, uSiiig ihe' slOgdn "nb Baldwin rio cdne,''' have tlifeatene'd not tb harvest sugar erops uhless he retur-ns. .
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 February 1949, Page 5
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