Word: nyasaland
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...Vote Rhodesian Front for a white Christmas!" shouted a heckler at a Salisbury rally as the campaign for Southern Rhodesia's 65-seat Parliament wound up last week. The man he interrupted-Sir Roy Welensky, white supremacist Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland-has never settled for anything less, but this time "Royboy" was up against an opponent who outbleached him. The result was a disastrous defeat for Welensky and his United Federal Party...
...swing to the extremists owed much to fear of the growing power of the blacks in the other two regions of Welensky's wobbly federation. Nyasaland already has a black majority in its Executive Council and loudly declares its intention to secede. In copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, the two big black political factions have agreed to form a coalition, which assures the territory its first African government. With a white government in Southern Rhodesia ranged against him, too, Welensky's long fight to hold the federation together seems doomed. "Welensky.'' said one Rhodesian Front leader...
...wrong people to "Royboy" are the blacks who want to break up his federation, a shaky, nine-year-old union of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Most of its 8,300,000 blacks regard it as a colonial instrument designed to perpetuate rule by 305,000 whites. Nyasaland, already under local black rule, is sending a delegation to London next week to demand a new constitution from the British, which would probably lead to withdrawal from the federation. In Northern Rhodesia, the blacks feel the same way. In last week's election for the 45-seat Legislative Council...
...Nyasaland last week, some of the world's leading economists discussed African economic and social problems. Among the greatest obstacles, they agreed, are abysmal shortages of capital and human skills. Though most countries are friendly to the West, their determination to be rid of colonial or "neocolonial" influence increases their difficulties. Moreover, most are not "nations," but uneasy groupings of diverse peoples, with little understanding of democracy-hence the need felt for strong, one-party governments...
...economic troubles mirror the nation's political plight. The federation is fast falling apart because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...