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...annual meeting in May. Cobb came under heavy fire from irate stockholders, finally confessed: "We made mistakes, some glaring. Our mistakes were made in an aggressive way, in an attempt to do too much too fast." Now acting as president is Board Vice Chairman Thomas W. MacLeod...
...spend time converting me to the principle of independence. That is agreed to now without further ado." So said British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod three weeks ago to delegates from Sierra Leone. Britain's earliest (colonized in 1787) possession on the West African coast. Last week, after notably amicable discussions, Macleod and Sierra Leone's Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai announced that come April 27, 1961, the 2,500,000 Sierra Leoneans will be free...
...three that includes a large (211,000) white settler population. It is Southern Rhodesia's whites, who are sentimentally linked to the South Africans in race policy, that Dr. Banda and Kaunda want to escape. Each is fresh from jail, released by Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the wind-through-Africa spirit, after serving sentences as political troublemakers. Each will probably become a Prime Minister within five years...
Fearful that Banda's release would set off fresh violence in Nyasaland, Governor Sir Robert Armitage organized an elaborately secret "Operation 1066" to spirit Banda from his jail cell in Southern Rhodesia to meet MacLeod in Zomba. After a go-minute session at Government House, Banda emerged jubilant...
From a balcony, he told his followers that he was going to London soon for constitutional talks. "Do not spoil my work," he warned. "If you listen to me, you will get your own government." MacLeod's gamble was daring but it was not novel. In the long recessional of empire there was plenty of precedent-from Ireland to India to Cyprus-for turning the Queen's prisoner into the Queen's Prime Minister...