Word: nyasaland
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...Welensky, 53, is a burly former prizefighter and locomotive engineer who in 1956 became Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, a landlocked prairie nation almost twice the size of Texas, whose existence is in such peril that two of its three federated territories are in an official state of emergency. Wedded to a policy of avowed racial "partnership," Sir Roy is in fact guided and moved by a Parliament that rejects a political voice for Africans, and by a public opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except...
...Hastings Banda, 55. who today sits, pajama-clad, writing his memoirs in a comfortable Southern Rhodesian prison, spent most of his adult life in Britain, where he was a prosperous London physician with a large white practice. Yet, when he returned to his native Nyasaland (pop. 2.800,000, almost all black) in 1958 after 40 years of self-exile, thousands of Africans met his plane and cheered hysterically when he shouted the one Chinyanja word he still remembered: "Kwaca! [dawn]," the slogan of all Nyasaland nationalists who demand self-rule and separation from the Central African Federation...
Banda's name was a household word in Nyasaland, for from faraway London he had produced a torrent of fiery pamphlets, messages and speeches in the cause of Nyasa independence. Last year, when nationalist riots spread through the colony, the government brought in troops and declared a state of emergency, accusing Banda of being the cause of it all. Banda denies he counseled violence, but he shouts: "We mean to get out of their damned federation. One cannot exclude violence. Africa is on the move. You cannot stop us!" Britain's Colonial Office wants Banda released, but Nyasaland...
Think of It!" True to his original premise that the real fact finding in the federation would have to be done later by a special commission headed by Lord Monckton, Macmillan departed from a thoroughly confused Nyasaland for the Union of South Africa, where a few Africans in the streets tried to attract his attention with homemade placards: MONTY CLOSED HIS EYES OPEN YOURS, MAC! Asked whether he would see any "non-white leaders," he blandly declared that this would be up to "my hosts." Finally, at a reception given by the mayor of Johannesburg, Macmillan found something...
...time Macmillan got to Nyasaland, where the blacks outnumber the whites 485 to 1, the Africans were getting disgruntled too. Macmillan made no attempt to see, let alone to set free, the imprisoned black "Messiah," Dr. Hastings Banda. Orton Chirwa, the territory's only black barrister, bluntly demanded to know why Britain was so afraid of Sir Roy. Macmillan testily replied: "Britain has never been frightened of anyone - not even Hitler." Finally, at the Ryalls Hotel in Blantyre, Macmillan ran into his first hostile crowd...