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Last week Williams wound up a 30,000-mile swing through 13 African countries. In Nyasaland. he officially received the title of honorary white chief; in the Ivory Coast he picked up a carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy...
...white-dominated Central African Federation-made up of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia-last week seemed about to dissolve. In Northern Rhodesia, the solvent was made up of rioting, strikes and demonstrations that have cost a dozen lives this month. In Nyasaland, the solvent was fiery Dr. Hastings Banda, 56, U.S.-educated (University of Chicago, Nashville's Meharry Medical College) leader of the Malawi Congress Party...
...issue was the election of a legislative council to "advise" the British on governing Nyasaland's 9,000 Europeans, 12,000 Asians and 2,780,000 Africans. Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who had helped jail Banda two years ago on the ground that a "massacre" of whites was being planned, flew in to help prop up his United Federal Party. Welensky made little effort to sway the 100,000 Africans whose literacy and income qualified them to vote in the "lower roll." Instead, he directed his appeal to the Asians, who were combined with the Europeans...
...house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers here...
...African Leader Kenneth Kaunda insisted that nothing short of majority control for the blacks would be acceptable in the new constitution being drafted. Portly Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky fought back with stern threats; fearful that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless the reins remained in the hands of Northern Rhodesia's 75,000 whites. Caught in the middle, Britain's hard-pressed Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod last week finally produced a labyrinthine new constitutional proposal that left everything...