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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1956Vol. XXVI, No.9

interested Spectators in Fiji

p. 109 · Read in the full issue

0M An Old Resident Of Fiji:

People of the Sooth Pacific may agine that the political developments places like Singapore, Indonesia, ilaya, Indo-China, are of little more in academic interest. How wrong i they be!

The Western countries are being ced by Asiatic Communist threats give political freedom to the South ;t Asiatic countries a generation or 9 before they are fit for that free n. Heaven alone knows what the ult will be.

Jut the Fiji-born Indians are not ising a line of it. They will use developments there, and in the fish colonies in West Africa, as an ument in favour of their getting common roll privilege in Fiji.

I they will be hard to answer, n fairness and justice to all the es concerned, it is not possible to i the common roll to the Indians Fiji until the Fijians themselves advanced enough sociologically to w them also to exercise the ilege. That will be some time yet. uttry to tell that to the Fiji Indians!

I don't know the answer—but I know that the situation developing Fiji does and will call for great lorn and tolerance on the part of Government there.