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...these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world, he gathered testimonials-sometimes heartfelt, sometimes diplomatically polite-from kings, labor leaders. Oriental potentates, Mau-Mau leaders...
...carcass was grim warning of trouble ahead, for such butchery was the traditional sign of the Mau Mau. From the hills came reports of obscene Mau Mau oath-takings in Kikuyuland villages, and that the savage rituals were beginning again in the sleazy native "locations" of bustling Nairobi. Most whites on isolated farms were again carrying guns at all times. At mealtime, doors were unlocked only to let servants in and locked again after they had served the food. Barbed-wire barriers were strung across garden paths and floodlights left on throughout the night. Alarm sirens and clusters of distress...
...there seems to be no central direction for the K.L.F.A. With an estimated 2,000 members, it is a loosely organized group of hard-core terrorists reportedly masterminded by a member of the former Mau Mau hierarchy. But its purpose is clear from captured documents: to rid Kenya of the white man forever, and to dominate the black leadership when the nation finally wins independence. Already a K.L.F.A. plot to kill Ronald Ngala, moderate leader of a prominent African political party, has been unearthed and nipped in the bud. By all reports, the new movement hoped to recruit Jomo ("Burning...
United Africa has not emerged everywhere unscathed. Its profits in Kenya are still off from pre-Mau Mau days; its immense plantation operation in the Congo slipped $364,000 into the red last year (though its Congolese margarine and trading companies turned modest profits). In Guinea, United Africa's business was brought to a halt a year ago when Marxist-inclined President Sekou Toure set up a government trading agency. But Toure's recent concession that Guinea's economy has room for private companies, too, has sparked the company's hopes of resuming operations. "Size...
...Mboya, Kenya's young leader, who is attractive to the British Colonial Office because he lacks the Mau Mau taint, who heads Kenya's largest political party, but who apparently wants power now only to hand it over to Jomo Kenyatta, whom the British hate and fear...