Word: lyttelton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odds with her Buganda subjects and their even more beloved monarch, Kabaka Edward Frederick William David Mukabya Mutesa II, the 30-year-old local ruler whom the Baganda know as Sabasajja, the Best and Strongest of All Men. The disagreement started when Britain's Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton tactlessly suggested that peaceful Uganda be joined with Tanganyika and Mau Mau-ridden Kenya in a big East African Federation. The Kabaka, reflecting his people's outrage, began plumping instead for complete independence for his kingdom. The British reply was to pack him posthaste aboard a plane and, without giving...
Just a few months after he resigned his post of Colonial Secretary in Sir Winston Churchill's Cabinet and was made a viscount, Oliver Lyttelton, 61, who laboriously helped to cope with the Mau Mau problem in Kenya and the Communist problem in Malaya, announced he had selected his new title: Viscount Chandos of Aldershot...
...Colonial Secretary stepped Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy Guinness family. As Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, he guided the restoration of road transport from Socialist nationalization to private ownership...
...linking his two proposals, Lyttelton made it impossible for the whites to get their streamlined war council unless they first agreed to give the natives at least a small voice in their government. "The plan must be accepted or rejected," he said. "It cannot be modified." "How long can we have to think it over?" asked the leader of the white delegation. Lyttelton looked at his watch and snapped his reply: "I need your answer...
Kenya's whites were shocked. "He treated us like fourth-form schoolboys," one complained. When the plan was published, many settlers condemned it as "appeasement of Nehru," and "too much too soon." But by 5:3O p.m. Oliver Lyttelton had his reply from all four groups. Whites and Indians accepted. Negroes and Arabs said no, but it was not a fatal no. Kenya's Arab dhowmen are politically unimportant, and the Negroes, it was obvious, were only stalling in the hope of improving the bargain, which indeed was not much so far as the blacks were concerned...