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Arming himself with "almost anything I can get my hands on," Marshall sat in his cheerless Piccadilly Hotel room poring over the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the constitutions of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanganyika. Although he has appeared often and successfully to argue Negro causes before the U.S. Supreme Court, Marshall is faced with one difficulty: he has had no experience of British law. His solution: to draft the constitution in U.S. legal terms and then consult the Colonial Office, which will "translate" it into the proper British terminology...
...three out of the four states he visited-Nigeria is virtually independent, and Ghana and the Union of South Africa are wholly so-he could be no more than a senior member of what he delights in calling "the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Club." But London still exerts power over the troubled Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky hoped that Macmillan might promise more independence soon for his white-dominated government. The Africans wanted him to hold firm while encouraging them in their own search for independence outside the federation...
Kaduna, Northern Nigeria...
...year 1960 may be the most important period in Africa's history," said Baptist Graham just before he took off last week on a preaching tour that will take him to 16 cities and nine countries-Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Ruanda Urundi, Ethiopia (South Africa is not included because Billy Graham insists on unsegregated meetings, which are illegal in the land of apartheid). Continued Billy: "We believe God directed the launching of this undertaking at the opening of Africa's year of destiny. We hope to be able to make some contribution...
...transition to self-rule of Nigeria's black 35 millions, due next October, was as close to perfect as Britain could hope to achieve in Africa. But the achievement was not complicated, as it is in British East and Central Africa, by deeply entrenched white settler populations. There the rising pressures for independence were giving the British a harder time. Britain's first Prime Minister ever to tour Africa south of the Sahara would find two key trouble spots...