Editorial The Royal Gazette April 15, 1959, pg 6

The appointment of a Negro legislator to the Executive Council has been expected since the time of Command Paper No. 7093 in 1948; which is to say over ten years ago. Our understanding is that the position had been offered before but was turned down by the legislator approached on the ground that he wished to continue as an Assemblyman and could not find time to be an Executive Councillor also. Be that as it may, most people will agree that the appointment is a step in the right direction, not merely because it removes one are of friction but also because the greater an amount of responsible dualism we are able to inject into our Parliamentary and governmental system the more solid our foundation for future progress. Indeed, without such dualism we run the risk of becoming a sharply divided community whose internecine strife gravely affects the common weal. It might confidently be said that this appointment is another of the many developments set in train by war-time events and by the great tides of liberation and nationalism thereby put in motion. People everywhere on this side of the Iron Curtain are on the march upward. To be sure, their means of attainting their goal are sometimes ill-timed and ill-directed.

But nevertheless it is clear that the currents given impetus by war-time stress are not to be stopped. It must be the hope of all statesmen and reasonable people that they may be channelled into wholesome movements, whose leaders are unconcerned with personal aggrandisement but genuinely desirous of improving the lot of their people. It has often been said that nothing sobers so quickly as responsibility. Our own post-war history, we think, goes to show that this leavening force is one to be considered in our gropings toward political evolution.

Naturally this process of delegation may be carried only so far in the body politic. The choice for its conferment falls therefore upon those who are judged best-qualified to represent the people and, presumably, best able to interpret to them the unwinding of public policy as it affects them. This in turn means that those chosen take on a high task in which, practically speaking, there is little room for political expediency and trimming of sails to whatever particular political current happens to be blowing at the moment. These are some of the thoughts that occur to us in offering our best wishes to the new Executive Councillor. His is no enviable task, but we feel sure that in discharging it he has the good wishes of those over whom he is set in governance.