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...neediest only have to trot out of town, drape themselves in a monkey skin and return chanting a Mau Mau jingle. It was all a little embarrassing for Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. Branch offices of his ruling KANU party, having promised to feed all newly returned Mau Maus until they get settled, were going broke all through the former White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights. According to rank, hundreds of other comrades were billeted in tents, schools and stately homes vacated by departing settlers. Trouble...
Martial law is at an end, but the state of emergency continues, permitting the government to hold 42,000 Mau Maus in prison camps-34,000 without trial because the government lacks evidence to convict but fears to turn them free...
...MAUS V. DARLING...
...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...
...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...