Word: macleods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless the reins remained in the hands of Northern Rhodesia's 75,000 whites. Caught in the middle, Britain's hard-pressed Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod last week finally produced a labyrinthine new constitutional proposal that left everything up in the air. So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain...
Jomo has a personal stake in the struggle: his own freedom. Governor Renison -who once described Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death"-has agreed to move Jomo soon to a more pleasant location in the Kenya highlands, but still in confinement. In London, British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod backed Renison's stand in Parliament...
Last week, rising in the House of Lords, Salisbury tilted his long nose at a more aristocratic angle than ever and launched an attack on Macleod. "Rhodesia was the most British, in the fullest sense of that word, of any of the realms and territories of the British Crown. Now, within the space of a few months, those feelings have given way to ... suspicion, contempt, almost hatred of the home government." The "main responsibility" for this state of affairs, he charged, must rest on Macleod, "a man of most unusual intellectual brilliance" but also one who "has been too clever...
Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...
Salisbury had brought into the open a deeply felt split among the Tories. His is the voice of the past, but it could do damage to Harold Macmillan in the present, and it undoubtedly did something to dim the future luster of Iain Macleod...