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...setting was imperial, the purpose of last week's meeting was not. Britain's new Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, 46, was facing up to his first big challenge, as he sought to guide the African colony of Kenya along the road to full democratic nationhood. The challenge is urgent, since Kenya will soon be entirely surrounded by African-controlled states. Sudan and Ethiopia to the north are already independent; Somalia to the east, Tanganyika to the south, and Uganda in the west come under African control this year or next...
...Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan puts it: "Since the war, Communist Russia has absorbed at least 100 million people into her block contrary to the wishes of the inhabitants of the countries concerned. Since the war, Britain-imperialist Britain, if you like-has given freedom and nationhood to at least 500 million people...
Leading the Way. The Commonwealth idea is a means of letting colonies grow into nations, and among British colonies of the igth century Canada led the way to nationhood. After the American Revolution, an estimated 40,000 Loyalist refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government...
After the last week's Middle East convulsion, the question was not whether Nasser is lost to the West (he was never the West's to lose), but whether he has forfeited the independence of the Arab unity movement-for Arab nationhood has no more desire to be Russia's slave than dependent on the West...
After eleven years of nationhood, Pakistan has yet to hold its first national election. One is scheduled for next November, but East Pakistanis fear that the politicos of outnumbered West Pakistan will somehow get the election...