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Under the flame trees that line Dar es Salaam's breezy waterfront esplanade, the 45th Royal Marine Commando band tootled a medley of marches. Carefree Tanganyikans of all races sauntered under sunny skies, staring at the great British warships at anchor outside Dar's tidy harbor or simply listening to the music. But the holiday mood was superficial. All through East Africa, worried government leaders were busy patching the flimsy fabric of their infant nations, torn by a week of armed mutiny and racial violence...
Anarchy's Victory. The first mutiny erupted in Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam, and gunfire rattled through that humid "Haven of Peace" for the first time since German gunboats held target practice there during World War I, when Tanganyika was part of German East Africa. Before it died away, at least 20 Tanganyikans were dead, whole blocks of the Arab and Indian quarters lay in ruins, and President Julius Nyerere's government-once considered East Africa's most stable-had been seriously discountenanced. The mutiny was made possible by Nyerere's decision...
...African troops, this sounded as if Nyerere was welshing on his promise to send British officers home later this year and put black officers in charge. They also wanted their basic pay increased from $14.84 a month to $36.40-roughly the equivalent of what dockworkers were making in Dar es Salaam...
Months, Even Years. Mutinous troops from the Colito barracks outside Dar quickly grabbed key points in the city, and as rioters raged through the streets, Nyerere went into hiding. Fearing a coup, he dispersed his Cabinet to prevent arrest, sent Defense and External Affairs Minister Oscar Kambona, a hard-working leftist, to negotiate with the mutineers. Kambona got the troops back to their barracks only by sending the British officers and men out of the country and promising to look into the pay question. But it was a victory for anarchy, and no one was more aware of that fact...
Rocketing Rout. With the Uganda and Kenya rebellions quelled for the moment, only Tanganyika's Nyerere remained in any danger from his own army. That situation was rectified at week's end when, at Nyerere's request, the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Centaur in Dar es Salaam harbor went into action...