Word: nyasaland
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...prefer to starve in independence than to have full stomachs in slavery," Hastings Banda, Chief Minister of Nyasaland, told a questioner in his Winthrop House audience last night...
Banda, who is also president of the Malawi African National Congress, a political party which seeks to withdraw Nyasaland from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, claimed that the present federation is desired only by white settlers. They hope to use it to extend the oppressive "native policy" of Southern Rhodesia, Banda charged. The policy, according to Banda, is "in no way different from that of the Union of South Africa...
Banda's assertion that Nyasaland can be economically self-sufficient was challenged after his talk by a Boston University student from Southern Rhodesia, who charged that dissolving the federation "would cause some human beings to suffer...
...Rhodesian proposed instead that Banda use his recently acquired majority in the Nyasaland legislative council as a tool for "eliminating discrimination" throughout the whole federation...
Welensky toyed with the idea of calling a federal election at which the predominantly white voters would choose independence from Britain. But the move would have no legality in Britain's eyes, since both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland are still protectorates. The third member of the federation, Southern Rhodesia, is a self-governing colony and has threatened to quit the federation if Northern Rhodesia ever came under black domination. This would also be illegal. And it is an ineffective threat to black nationalists, who have hated federation as an instrument of white rule ever since...