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Ever since their turbaned and straw-hatted chieftains met with Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in London last May, few politically conscious Nigerians had doubted that home rule was really on the way. The only question was when. Last week in the dusty streets and mangrove-shaded gardens of the ramshackle, tin-roofed capital of Lagos, Nigerians read the answer in a special 32-page edition of the Dally Times. The answer, for half of Africa's most populous (33 million) nation...
...Britain that was holding the day back. "Any suggestion which I may put forward," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in a self-effacing welcome to the 70 delegates assembled around his oblong table, "will have but one object in view, the prosperity, good government and unity of Nigeria...
This time the bonds of old friendship failed to carry the day. On his own initiative, Macmillan overruled Salisbury, and at midweek Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd told the House of Commons: "While Her Majesty's Government cannot regard [Makarios' statement] as the clear appeal for which they asked, nevertheless they consider that in the present circumstances it is no longer necessary to continue the Archbishop's detention." The government, added Lennox-Boyd, would not permit the Archbishop to return to Cyprus itself, nor would it comply with his demand for immediate lifting of the state...
...Lennox-Boyd hustled Harding into an official car, and back to the Colonial Office. Harding's argument: Why take the pressure off now when EOKA is on the run? Once EOKA is crushed, the Cypriots will be easy to deal with. As governor of Cyprus, he was flatly opposed to negotiating with the archbishop under any circumstances; in private conversations he has reportedly referred to Makarios as a cheat, liar and fraud. After two hours of argument, the two men hurried over to 10 Downing Street where Prime Minister Macmillan, just hours before his departure for Bermuda, had hastily...
...Again. As Harding watched grim-faced from the gallery a few yards from the equally grim-faced Greek Chargée d'Affaires Demetrios Nickolairezis, Lennox-Boyd made the announcement to an angry House of Commons. "Another opportunity muffed," cried one Laborite. Insisted Lennox-Boyd: "Clearly the government of Cyprus cannot allow-under the cover of an offer of suspension-the chance of regrouping and rearming of the hard-hit terrorist group." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell declared that the EOKA offer created "a new situation" and demanded: "Is it not the case that only the imprisonment of the archbishop...