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...Macleod were not aware of the impact of this fact on Kenya, African nationalists would forcibly remind him of it. They are contemptuous of a system in which 65,000 Europeans, 165,000 Asians and 35,500 Arabs hold more seats and power than do 6,000,000 Africans. The Africans demand universal suffrage, one-man-one-vote democracy, and full independence now. Macleod may not want to give it "now," but his sharp, trained intellect (he is an international-class bridge player) is sufficiently acute to recognize that there can be no solid African policy in Kenya without...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...
After helping fight and win last October's general election, Macleod looked around for a more demanding job. The toughest one in sight was the Colonial Office, and Macleod boned up for it and got it. Within a month, he abolished the state of emergency in Kenya-seven years after the Mau Mau terror began. He toured East and Central Africa, talked with tribal chiefs, heads of government, and dozens of others, including his younger brother, Roderick, 39, a white settler in Kenya...
Last week's Kenya constitutional conference got off to the worst possible start. As Iain Macleod entered the room for his formal opening speech, the chairs of the 14 elected African members were empty. Dryly extending his welcome to "those of you who are here," Macleod quickly explained what had happened. The African elected members had requested a second special adviser. Their first adviser is Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Negro lawyer who pleaded the antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain...
Pinochle Player. The problem was a nasty one for Macleod. Should he give in to the African members' boycott, the Asian and European delegates would consider it the beginning of a cave-in before an African show of force. Macleod's solution: Koinange and other delegation advisers would not sit in on the conference but could be admitted to the committee rooms of each delegation. It satisfied no one. Thurgood Marshall fumed: "What can I do in some separate room, play pinochle? If I'm not in the conference room, I can't see the fast...