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...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...
Died. Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson, 72, Irish dramatist (The Whiteheaded Boy, The Lost Leader, The Far-Off Hills'), a longtime director of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, short-time secretary to George Bernard Shaw; in Dublin...
...bearded, 45-year-old Greek Orthodox Ethnarch of Cyprus and leader of the Greek Cypriot movement for enosis (union with Greece). This would give Foot a Greek Cypriot with whom to negotiate. And Makarios might be persuaded to restrain EOKA's gunmen, he argued. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who had a hand in Makarios' expulsion from the island in 1956, did not agree. He admitted that Makarios would have to be allowed to return to Cyprus eventually-but not until the archbishop gave advance proof that he would curb violence. The Cabinet compromised: Foot glumly went back...
Grudgingly, the government replied with the Lennox-Boyd plan, which would give Negroes six more elective seats and add twelve more councilors, equally divided between Europeans, Negroes and Asians. But this concession did not appease the Africans. Tom Mboya could not block the election, but he did the next best thing. He had six "rejector" candidates enter their names, and each was pledged, if elected, to oppose the constitution. Last week Africans trooped to the polls and elected all six rejectors...