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...murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification for government policy," said the report, "the murder plot began to play a larger part." Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd used the prospects of a "blood bath" against Europeans as excuse for cracking down on Nyasaland's black African National Congress...
...much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could not jeopardize our sources," presumably paid African informers. Faced with the outcry, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd appointed a commission to investigate the situation, headed by High Court Justice Sir Patrick Devlin, 53, who ably presided over the famed murder trial of Dr. John Bodkin Adams (TIME...
...Colonial Secretary," taunted Labor's Colonial Specialist Jim Callaghan, "can dust off all the phrases he used about Cyprus and bring them out again." Callaghan continued, his emotion showing: "In the end, we shall concede to force what we failed to concede to reason." But Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd,* in an almost swaggering parliamentary performance, was confident that the news he had up his sleeve would be enough to shock the Opposition into silence...
...confidence, "information came to the notice of the government of Nyasaland of a very serious kind." So serious was it, in fact, that the Governor of Nyasaland had declared a state of emergency. "I have seen the information. I am not in a position to disclose it," said Lennox-Boyd, as the Opposition hooted. "[But], in fact, a massacre was being planned...
...Beset by poor health and one crisis after another, Lennox-Boyd plans to retire from politics soon, join the family business brewing Guinness Stout...