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...crucial issue before the conference was: Who would control Kenya's new Legislative Council as the colony moved on to independence? Since the blacks and whites of Kenya could not agree among themselves, Britain's astute new Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, offered a plan of his own. It called for an intricate set of direct and indirect elections, under which 37 seats out of 65 in the new Legislative Council would be held by Africans. Twenty seats would be reserved to Europeans (10), Asians (8) and Arabs (2), but voted on by the entire electorate. This, in diluted...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans...
...over. Nobody mentioned Algeria around the table under the glittering chandelier of London's Lancaster House last week, as the Kenya Constitutional Conference entered its second week. But in a way, the 48 Africans, Asians, Arabs and Europeans had been called into session by Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod to prevent any Algerias in Kenya...
...week's end, Macleod proposed an other solution : all delegations and their first special advisers would be admitted to all sessions of the conference. Any "extra" advisers (i.e., Koinange) would be permitted to sit in another office in Lancaster House. The African members promised to study this proposal. Right-wing white settlers blustered that even an outside waiting room was too close contact with Koinange. But the white majorty, under the leadership of Moderate Michael Blundell, were wary of continuing the wrangle lest it build up the personality of Koinange, whom one white settler called...
...Kenya constitutional conference was off to an uneasy and unsteady start. Macleod's real difficulties are still to come as he strives to create built-in constitutional provisions to protect Kenya's white settlers in a land run by Africans. If he brings this off, fast-rising Macleod will be well along toward achieving his chief aim: to be the last Colonial Secretary of the old-style British Empire...