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...some extent, changed for the worse." With Lyttelton's approval, Sir Evelyn Baring, governor of Kenya, last week assumed emergency powers to punish whole villages (by confiscating of crops and livestock) for crimes committed in their vicinity. Jomo Kenyatta, exiled boss of the Kenya African Union (KAU), was hauled before a British district commissioner formally charged with "managing the Mau Mau." Many white settlers proposed still tougher measures. There was talk of evicting the whole Kikuyu tribe (one million strong) from its tribal lands, and white-whiskered Colonel Ewart Grogan, 78, the oldest member of Kenya's Legislative...
Military action may or may not stamp out Mau Mau terror; only reform can get at the deep roots of black unrest. Big and bluff British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton toured the colony last week to see what can be done. From the Kenya African Union (KAU), the only political body in Kenya that claims to represent Africans, he got a list of Kikuyu demands: 1) more land; 2) higher wages and better education; 3) votes for all Negroes who pass literacy and property tests. KAU also sought the release of its leader Jomo Kenyatta...
Also missing in action last week: Mustang pilot Lieut. Wau-Kau Kong, of Honolulu, self-styled "handsomest" (and only) Chinese fighter pilot with the U.S. Air Forces in Britain (TIME...
...Mary Welsh will visit her folks in Thief River Falls, Minnesota-and steal a short vacation with a Chippewa Chief named Kau-kau-kan who taught her to paddle a birchbark canoe when she was twelve. Before she goes back to London she will do a short stint in TIME'S editorial office here, to share her intimate, on-the-spot knowledge of Britain directly with our editors...
Last week Pele stirred again, cracked the back of Mauna Loa. From a jagged rift on the mountain's slope shot a cascade of fire hundreds of feet high, 150 to 200 feet wide. Fortunately for the citizens of Hilo, the lava moved down toward Kau Desert, on the opposite side from the city...