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...Britain's able, ambitious Colonial Secretary Iain MacLeod who took the bold gamble. The white Rhodesians who dominate the Central African Federation tried to dissuade him. They pointed out that Banda, self-styled "extremist of the extremists," had fought for a separate, all-black Nyasaland. shouting, "To hell with the federation!" Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead had even warned darkly that if the blacks gained control in the north, Southern Rhodesia would secede from the federation...
...week in Central Africa convinced MacLeod that the African "wind of change" was blowing too hard to be contained. There was a chance of bringing whites and blacks together, he concluded -but only if Banda was freed first...
...Mboya had taken what he could get from Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, and he proclaimed, at his own big welcome-home, that the agreement was just "an instrument to use" in getting more-and getting it more quickly. "As to the future of white settlers, there's no room for anyone who does not believe in undiluted democracy. Those Europeans who hesitate have only one alternative, and that's to sell out and leave...
Westerns & Thrillers. In the hope that he will get practice in governing, Colonial Secretary Macleod is trying to persuade Mboya to take one of the three major Cabinet posts that will be handed over to Africans after next year's elections. But Mboya will probably prefer to snipe from outside, from the security of the second-floor offices in Nairobi, which are the headquarters of his People's Convention Party and of the Kenya Federation of Labor...
...liberalism and prefers to operate against the more extreme European wing led by Group Captain Llewellyn Briggs. With the ultras, Mboya believes, Africans at least know where they stand. White extremists have already begun denouncing Blundell back home as a dupe. Now, far from rewarding him for his reasonableness. Macleod confronted him with a plan that seemed destined only to stiffen his white critics further. For big Michael Blundell, the bus seemed already moving too fast...