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...Malaya's independence. After months of haggling and delay, the Tunku finally forced Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd (now Lord Boyd) to the conference table. Throughout the grueling, three-week session in London, the Tunku refused to budge from his ultimatum that independence must come no later than Aug. 31, 1957. "When the Siamese have no intention of yielding, they just appear stupid," he told subordinates. "I'm half Siamese, you know." At last, Lennox-Boyd got the point and caved in. On the Tunku's target date, independent Malaya came into being...
...tactics of the two ministers have left the mild Mr. Macleod helpless. It was hoped, when Mr. Macmillan chose him to replace Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (who was able to deny harshly the no doubt valid Devlin Commission report that found the imprisonment of Dr. Banda quite unnecessary) that some softer glances might be directed toward nationalism in Central Africa. But it is at least clear now that unless some official of very great authority removes Sir Roy and Sir Edgar, the Federation, in Dr. Banda's words, "is dead. All that remains now is to bury...
...Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross...
...Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother...
...Negro and Asian delegates, anxiously following the debate from the galleries, were dismayed by the government's bland rejection of an impartial judicial commission: Was this the noble British justice they had been taught to respect? The Devlin commission had cleared Dr. Banda of inciting violence; regardless, said Lennox-Boyd, Dr. Banda and some 500 others would still be held in jail...