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...published, many settlers condemned it as "appeasement of Nehru," and "too much too soon." But by 5:3O p.m. Oliver Lyttelton had his reply from all four groups. Whites and Indians accepted. Negroes and Arabs said no, but it was not a fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned. "I found Lyttelton very sympathetic," said shrewd Eliud Mathu, spokesman for the loyal Kikuyu. "The Negroes will not boycott...
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