Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Guiana – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1964.
Mr Fenner Brockway
, Eton and Slough
12:00,
16 June 1964
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that those of us who are receiving communications from British Guiana have no doubt at all that it is the desire of the overwhelming mass of the people that racial conflict shall end? Is not it the case that if a bitter political controversy recurs, that conflict will also recur? Will the right hon. Gentleman, therefore, again consider the proposal of some Commonwealth Intervention in this matter? Will he consider, for example, a proposal for a Commonwealth committee of conciliation, representative of both India and an African country, which would appeal to the races in this territory and, with the backing of the people who want a settlement of this problem, would provide a constructive way of reaching a solution?
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