Word: banda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prefer to starve in independence than to have full stomachs in slavery," Hastings Banda, Chief Minister of Nyasaland, told a questioner in his Winthrop House audience last night...
Obsessed simply with the idea of secession from the federation, the nationalist leader of Nyasaland, Dr. Hastings Banda (who is respected perhaps above all Africans), has walked out of the conference twice. The second time he dragged the Northern and Southern Rhodesian leaders out the door as well, in an attempt to unite the Africans delegations against their most powerful enemies: Sir Roy Welensky, the Federal Prime Minister, and Sir Edgar Whitehead, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia...
...course it is unlikely that the Africans would settle for representation even if they could get it. The perpetual persecution of nationalists and the imprisonment of Dr. Banda two years ago have made a history in Rhodesia and Nyasaland too unhappy to be forgotten through such easy compromises. Yet as Dr. Banda himself has said, "There's absolutely no chance of conciliation or understanding between the Europeans and Africans in Central Africa" so long as Sir Edgar and Sir Roy are in power...
...tactics of the two ministers have left the mild Mr. Macleod helpless. It was hoped, when Mr. Macmillan chose him to replace Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (who was able to deny harshly the no doubt valid Devlin Commission report that found the imprisonment of Dr. Banda quite unnecessary) that some softer glances might be directed toward nationalism in Central Africa. But it is at least clear now that unless some official of very great authority removes Sir Roy and Sir Edgar, the Federation, in Dr. Banda's words, "is dead. All that remains now is to bury...
...talks ended, Nyasaland's leading white delegate, A.C.W. Dixon, turned to Dr. Banda and glowed: "Do call me up as soon as you get back, and let's have a cup of tea together." But within 24 hours Banda gave an interview suggesting that he had only postponed his more extreme demands: "I am coming back to England very soon. And next time, I shall say, 'Now, Mr. Colonial Secretary, I want this and this and this.'" Such bluster might only be meant to reassure extremists back home. A reporter pressed a further question: Is independence...