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...Subhuman Individuals." Arms folded and feet on table, Lennox-Boyd stared stonily ahead in the House of Commons, as the Opposition charged the government with condoning lynch law in Africa by refusing to accept responsibility for the Hola murders. He was not helped much by a volunteered defense from a Tory backbencher that the African victims were "desperate and subhuman individuals." Next day came the Devlin debate...
...would happen if Britain tried to stand in Rhodesia's way. Sir Roy had said "I personally would never be prepared to accept that Rhodesians have less guts than the American colonists." Since the government had jailed Nyasa-land's African leader, Dr. Hastings Banda, Bevan challenged Lennox-Boyd "to mention anything that Dr. Banda has said which is more provocative than that." More solemnly, Bevan continued: "We are really trying to decide how to solve a problem which, if it is not solved, will continue to bleed us for generations." And then, in a peroration that...
Unwinding his long legs, lanky (6 ft. 6 in.) Lennox-Boyd seemed even more self-assured than usual. "I do not believe that this will go down as a squalid Parliament," he said, and proceeded to tick off as Colonial Office accomplishments the -independence of Ghana and the Malayan Federation, the coming independence of Nigeria and the West Indies. Coolly eyeing Bevan, Lennox-Boyd said he was prepared to match this against any record Parliament might make in the future, "if ever, which is most unlikely, the desiccated calculating machine on his right [Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell] formed an administration...
...this low level of debate, a vote was taken. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had his automatic Tory majority and won by a vote of 317 to 254. It was an election year, and Macmillan was going to neither scuttle Lennox-Boyd nor admit to any failure...
...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...