Word: kabaka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quass, a birdlike little man who had arrived from London only the previous week, insisted sharply: "This statute breaks two fundamental rights of a citizen, namely, to live in his own country, and to have access to the courts." For the government, Bing cited Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, the Kabaka of Buganda and Bechuanaland's Seretse Khama as individuals who had been deported under British parliamentary rule. Retorted Quass: "I know of no precedent for suggesting that [the constitution's] words-'Peace, order and good government'-have been used anywhere to justify a breach...
...forests of the west, where few whites live, to the Scottish-like highlands of the European settlers in the east, has tried to shape its policy to the complexities of each situation. With frequent glaring mistakes, often hastily rectified (e.g., the highhanded exile of Uganda's Cambridge-educated Kabaka, "King Freddie," three years ago), the Colonial Office has sought, against opposition from both blacks and local whites alike, to hasten native self-government in the all-black areas where it was possible, to promote racial equality in the multicolored zones where...
...outgrown, though he has not found it necessary to repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates of imperial defense...
Price of Mistake. Finally, Her Majesty's government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over...
With typical Whitehall urbanity, the Colonial Office represented the Kabaka's exile and return as designed from the first for the Baganda's own good, which had been practically forced on them to save the Baganda from the stubbornness of an absolute monarch. They should have told that to the Baganda. At the ceremonial signing of the new agreements last week, 10,000 roared noisy applause as King Freddie spoke. Then Governor Cohen rose. "Who does not believe that this friendship [of Britain and Buganda] has emerged not diminished but strengthened?" he asked rhetorically. The assembled tribal chiefs...