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Topic A in the House of Commons last week was still the colonial empire. Entrenched at the dispatch box, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton faced and beat down a series of Labor attacks that were marked by their concern for the welfare of native peoples, by their antipathy toward Lyttelton and by their astonishing lack of preparation...
...Lyttelton announced the first constructive program to remove the causes of Kenya's bitter war against the Mau Mau. Britain will allocate $14 million to finance a far-reaching development plan for African agriculture. The money will do far less good today, after 14 months of bloodshed, than it might have done a year ago, but at least the government's plan looked to the future. The Labor opposition, by contrast, looked only to the past...
Hands Tied. Shocked by Lyttelton's disclosure that in the last eleven months 2,821 Mau Mau-and Mau Mau "suspects"-have been killed and only 980 captured, the Socialists last week condemned Whitehall's "Shoot to kill" order against the terrorists. Ex-Grenadier Guardsman Lyttelton repulsed them in character: "I am not yet prepared . . . to allow British soldiers in these forest areas to . . . fight entirely with their hands tied behind their backs...
...Name, Go. In the House of Commons, Laborite after Laborite leaped to his feet to denounce the Kabaka's deposition as a "classic blunder" and the person and policies of Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton as disastrous. M.P.s on both sides had been shocked by reports of British military brutalities in Kenya. Britons were dismayed that the Colonial Office had kept a group of suspected Guiana Communists in jail for ten weeks, without bringing them to trial (TIME, Nov. 2). The Laborites blamed all these things on Oliver Lyttelton...
Leading Labor's attack was a pale, impassioned Bevanite named Archibald Fenner Brockway, son of an African missionary. Staring across the House at Lyttelton, he invoked Oliver Cromwell's terrible injunction to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Though the House was dissatisfied with Lyttelton, these strong words went...