Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he plans to lead the film-making safari across his old Kenya hunting grounds. Papa will write no scripts, do no acting. Production will start when Hemingway's novel writing permits and "Mau Mau activity ... is at a minimum."
Just a few months after he resigned his post of Colonial Secretary in Sir Winston Churchill's Cabinet and was made a viscount, Oliver Lyttelton, 61, who laboriously helped to cope with the Mau Mau problem in Kenya and the Communist problem in Malaya, announced he had selected his new title: Viscount Chandos of Aldershot...
...Colonial Secretary stepped Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy Guinness family. As Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, he guided the restoration of road transport from Socialist nationalization to private ownership...
...Mau Mau terrorists' threat to kill Britain's Queen restricted her visit here...
...three frontier forest reserves. "We are dealing with desperate armed gangsters," the governor said. Tanganyika's whites agreed, but unlike their blimpish neighbors in Kenya Colony, some of them understood that the Africans themselves (notably, the prosperous Chagga) are equally interested in keeping the terrorists out. "The Mau Mau made a big mistake in sending this invasion force," said one white official, and a Chagga farmer agreed. "They looked like savages to me," he said...