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...Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working-though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone will stamp out the Mau Mau. In the British House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told M.P.s that Mau Mau terrorism is "carefully planned, centrally directed, and its object is to destroy all authority . . ." Lyttelton added that he was leaving for Kenya this week, to see for himself...
Against strong Labor opposition (Labor supports federation but wants stronger safeguards for the Africans), Lyttelton invited the three colonial governments and representatives of the Africans to meet him in London next month. Agenda: federation...
...House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines of Northern Rhodesia...
...build a strong bulwark of British power and civilization in Central Africa. Afrikaners are flocking into the Rhodesias at the rate of 2,000 a month; many of them are anti-British and determined to bring the Rhodesias into the Union of South Africa. Warned Laborite Jim Griffiths, Lyttelton's predecessor as Colonial Secretary (see above): "Unless there is created and sustained in these three territories a stronger political association looking to [Britain] for its inspiration . . . other principles and other traditions might prevail . . . which come from the Union of South Africa. I think the House and the country ought...
...Oliver Lyttelton...