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...police and settlers strolled the streets of the remote little town of Kitale. The court was met to hear the appeal of Moscow-trained Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta and five of his loyal followers, sentenced to seven years' hard labor last April for being the brains behind the Mau Mau terrorist movement...
Outside the courtroom, in the hot Kenya sun, bearded, burly Kenyatta and his five followers were taken into custody once more. In South Nyeri, Mau Mau terrorists had just killed 13 loyal Kikuyu. In London, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told Laborite critics in the House of Commons that, in Britain's relentless and increasingly successful counter-efforts, 1,300 suspected Mau Maus have been killed...
...Sentenced to seven years' hard labor for "managing the Mau Mau Society...
...Naguib on their way home from London, thought that, in Nehru's words, "progressive and controlled nationalism in the Middle East must not be thwarted." South Africa, however, worried that Russian land armies might one day storm across the Middle East and sweep through Africa, raising thousands of Mau Mau-style recruits along...
First, the Mau Mau overran a Somali outpost on the estate. They cut off the head of a Somali cattle herdsman, presumably to terrorize the Somali tribesmen who are trickling south to help the British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...