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Sprawled in the governor's chair, wearing a crumpled white linen suit and the blue-and-scarlet tie of the Grenadier Guards, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton listened patiently to the representatives of 6,000,000 Africans, 100,000 Indians, 40,000 whites and 25,000 Arabs The whites wanted martial law and an all-out offensive against the Mau Mau. The others wanted a share in the colony's all-white government. For nine days Lyttelton was silent; on the tenth day he spoke. He proposed a drastic constitutional revision whose main features were 1) a four...
...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...
Respect, Then Esteem. Into Nairobi last week, to adjudge the balance between the settlers' anxiety, the campaign's necessity, and the black man's historic emergence in Africa, flew Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. It was Lyttelton's third visit to Kenya in 16 months, and the war's latest statistics bore out his concern. Six thousand British, 44,000 African troops, police and home guards are now deployed against some 14,000 Mau Mau and their supporters. The war costs more than twice as much ($1,800,000 a month) this year as last...
...over Africa, of a fairer share of the blanket. Items: ¶ In blossoming Uganda, where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...
...Lyttelton's Churchillian cigar brought Awolowo to his senses. At week's end it was still unsmoked, and the conference had approved: 1) financial arrangements for an all-Nigerian government; 2) a reorganization of its cocoa-marketing board, which has a financial half nelson on the world's chocolate prices. Proposed solution for Lagos: federal status, with its own special minister, independent of both Zik and Awolowo...