Word: nyasaland
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...NYASALAND...
...Congo, the Federal government's reaction was hasty and excessive. A state of emergency was declared, the African Congress was banned, and Dr. Banda and many of its leaders were arrested. While these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps rightly, of encouraging the nationalists...
...that both sides have resorted to force, the familiar pattern of extremists appearing as the representative element is again revealed. Clearly, however, neither white dominance nor Nyasaland's withdrawal from the Federation is the answer. Economically, Nyasaland could not survive alone, for it gets over half its budget from the Rhodesias and its labor surplus relies on the Rhodesian copper industry. Nor would merger with her black and bankrupt neighbor, Tanganyika, help...
...which might then have to join South Africa, certainly no improvement for her black majority. Political independence, as the recent black-versus-black riots in the free Congo Republic in which 120 were killed demonstrates, would by no means be an unmixed blessing for a state as unprepared as Nyasaland...
...territory beyond 1960 also seems inevitable, if there is to be any guarantee that irresponsible elements are not to dominate the Federation. The only conclusion which is consistent both with the economic and social advance of the territory and with the aspirations of the population, is to permit Nyasaland to become an African state within the Federation...