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...effort to keep both blacks and whites satisfied. The first brought roars of indignation from Welensky because it would have given the blacks considerable advantages in future elections. The second withdrew most of these advantages and was bitterly opposed by Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, whose followers launched a long bout of bloody noting that threatened to engulf the entire territory. To Britain's Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling, it was clear that any third formula must come to terms with black demands. In the end, he chose an intricate variation of the first two electoral...
...approached for Maudling's proposals to be introduced in the House of Commons, the Rhodesians waited grimly to hear the details. From his headquarters in Lusaka, Kaunda ordered his black followers to lay in stocks of food for a general strike should the draft prove unsatisfactory. Sir Roy fumed that he would "go the whole hog"-a hint of armed force-if Britain's terms appeared to endanger what he regards as his personal domain. Said he: "The federation is mine." When the news finally arrived, Sir Roy exploded. "This is not good enough." he roared, ordering...
...months, the blacks and whites of Central Africa have been squabbling over control of Northern Rhodesia, a sprawling African territory containing 2,400,000 people above ground and 700 million tons of copper reserves below. Racing in and out of London, African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short of majority control for the blacks would be acceptable in the new constitution being drafted. Portly Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky fought back with stern threats; fearful that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless...
...breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it." But Welensky seemed happy enough at the outcome. Not so Kaunda, whose blacks-95% of the population-would have a large voice in the legislature for the first time, but no guaranteed, clear-cut majority. Kaunda, 37, is normally a mild-mannered man and conspicuously dedicated to the ways of moderation. But he returned from London shaking with fury. Angrily declaring that Macleod had given the blacks advance assurance of a "small majority," he announced: "The British government has completely betrayed...
Putting his party on an emergency footing, Kaunda declared that a massive passive resistance campaign would soon begin. "We control the kitchens, the mines, the shops, the airways-everything," he cried. Kaunda insisted that the "master plan" would be peaceful: "We will not lift a stone, a panga, a club, a spear." But next day he was off again on another trip, this time to Accra and talks with Ghana's rambunctious Kwame Nkrumah, who not only advocates violence, if necessary, to sweep the white man out of Africa, but has received hundreds of tons of Soviet arms...