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Everybody was rushing to leave Sir Roy Welensky's rickety Rhodesia federation. Black-ruled Nyasaland was already assured of Britain's permission to secede. Northern Rhodesia's African-dominated Assembly last week voted, 21 to 14, to demand immediate secession. Even whiteruled Southern Rhodesia was now calling for "a clean break." Or, as the new Prime Minister, Winston Field, put it at the opening session of Parliament in Salisbury, "The question of Southern Rhodesian secession will not arise. We shall have been seceded from...
Katanga because, as Foreign Minister Evariste Kimba complained, "You have done nothing for us." But Tshombe was beaten nonetheless. Even his old ally, Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, told him he had "acted wisely" in yielding...
...shadow of Lord Home's strikingly Gaullist pronouncements on the proper function of the U.N. lay two profound fears: that the new federation would injure British financial interests in Katanga, and that the casques bleus would march firmly into any settlement of the touchy Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
What infuriated "Royboy," Prime Minister of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, was the announcement last week that Britain had decided to permit Nyasaland to secede from his crumbling, nine-year-old federation. Under a black majority headed by Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda (he no longer calls himself Hastings-too British), an urbane onetime London general practitioner, Nyasaland is expected to quit within a year. Northern Rhodesia, whose first black government took over a fortnight ago and likes the idea of keeping the $320 million-a-year copper-mining industry all to itself, would like to follow suit. Even in Southern Rhodesia...
...fighting to alter a decision I consider wrong in every way," he thundered before an emergency session of his Federal Parliament in Salisbury. In London, beleaguered R. A. Butler, Deputy Prime Minister who is in charge of Central African affairs, wearily insisted that it was "our duty" to okay Nyasaland's secession. To soothe a strong bloc of pro-Welensky Tories, he said that he would visit Central Africa early next year to look into the chances of preserving a union between the two Rhodesias...