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Mboya's leftist London lawyer, D. N. Pritt, Q.C.. the defender of Mau Mau Leader Jomo Kenyatta (now in prison), got the conspiracy charge thrown out on a technicality, and set forth to destroy the reputations of the moderate African nominees who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution. At one he thundered: "Do you hate Africans, or merely despise them?" But somehow, the fireworks...
Defense Attorney D. N. Pritt, a Londoner who makes a specialty of defending Communist causes, ticked off 60 grounds of appeal for Kenyatta, at least 20 for each of his associates. When he finished, the two judges threw out the convictions on one of the technicalities raised by Barrister Pritt: Chief Judge Ransley Thacker, the trial magistrate, had no jurisdiction in the isolated village of Kapenguria, where the trial took place, because his appointment was to a different province of the colony. The government had blundered, the court held, but Kenyatta and his cronies must stand trial again. Up jumped...
...shabby after ten weeks in jail, was on trial last week in the remote northern outpost of Kapenguria. The principal charge was "management of an unlawful society," but implicitly, Kenyatta was suspected of sowing the seeds of African Communism. His defending counsel was Britain's slick Denis Nowell Pritt, Queen's Counsel, the man who got Gerhart Eisler freed in England. Though he denies being a Communist Party member himself, Pritt can be relied upon to echo the familiar cries, including that of germ warfare in Korea...
Thanks largely to Pritt's skilled defense tactics, Kenyatta's trial is now a month...
...trial brought into the open opposing working-class attitudes toward the war. The Worker's attorney, Denis Nowell Pritt, was recently expelled from the Labor Party for his anti-war views. "Have you ever considered," he asked Sir Walter, "whether there is any alternative to carrying on this war to a bitter conclusion...