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...Legislative Council would be held by Africans. Twenty seats would be reserved to Europeans (10), Asians (8) and Arabs (2), but voted on by the entire electorate. This, in diluted form, met many of the original demands of the Africans' vigorous Labor Leader Tom Mboya, 29. He balked a bit, but when Macleod made it clear that this would be a final offer, Mboya accepted...
...Blundell, however, the plan came as a devastating shock. He had already risked his white support by trying to reach a compromise with Mboya, who does not trust Blundell's liberalism and prefers to operate against the more extreme European wing led by Group Captain Llewellyn Briggs. With the ultras, Mboya believes, Africans at least know where they stand. White extremists have already begun denouncing Blundell back home as a dupe. Now, far from rewarding him for his reasonableness. Macleod confronted him with a plan that seemed destined only to stiffen his white critics further. For big Michael Blundell...
...than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans, and I use the term in the commonly accepted sense [i.e., blacks], will be in the majority position, and their voice will be the predominant voice." White settler representatives were shocked as they left the meeting; African Leader Tom Mboya unhappily complained that Macleod's intricate system of reserved parliamentary seats for whites was still far from the one-man, one-vote system he is demanding.'But Macleod had made a major British commitment to the "wind of change" blowing through Africa...
...more striking than the odor and abundance of verbal onions flung by speaker after speaker at TIME'S coverage of Kwame Nkrumah and Tom Mboya was the evident, marked apathy of almost the whole audience of half a thousand persons. Their mood, in sharp and significant contrast with the onstage pyrotechnics was, I think, a reassuring earnest of the common sense and natural warmth accorded the U.S. throughout Accra. Restless, unawed, good-humored, but occasionally stirred at mention of their country's independence, the crowd resembled nothing quite so much as a latter-day July 4 gathering...
...years of exile in Britain and in Ghana, where he is now an all-Africa adviser to Ghana's ambitious leader, Kwame Nkrumah. His principal purpose at the conference last week seemed to be to act as a counterweight to Kenya's young, aggressive Labor Leader Tom Mboya, 29, and to represent his absent chiefs-Kenyatta and Nkrumah-who view Mboya as an upstart rival...