Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will fly by Comet jet airliner from London to Southern Rhodesia next June to open a Cecil Rhodes centenary exhibition...
...neither money nor power. Yet, mite by mite, they collected $5,000 to send five of their chiefs to London with a message for the "great white mother," Queen Elizabeth. The message was a protest against the British government's plan to federate Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia into a Central African dominion (TIME, Feb. 9). "We are afraid Southern Rhodesia will swallow us down," said their spokesman, Chief Somba...
...bitterest objections to federation came from the leaders of 6,000,000 Rhodesian and Nyasaland Negroes. The Africans fear to lose the benevolent protection of the British Colonial Office, suspecting that the whites in an independent "Rhodesia" might follow the example of South Africa and turn down the screws on the blacks. Negro spokesmen vainly petitioned Queen Elizabeth, whom they call the "Great White Mother," to veto the plan...
...Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, insisted that the federation plan make provision for 1) a six-man native-affairs board with the right to be consulted on all legislation affecting African interests; 2) Negro representation in the federal parliament. Sir Godfrey Huggins assured the conference that in Southern Rhodesia black Africans will have "a voice in the election of white Africans as well as in the election of those whom chance has made of their own color; that, as the years roll by, and the black electorate swells and becomes educated and mature, white candidates will have to reckon more & more...
Northern Buffer. Now the British House of Commons must approve, on behalf of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and a referendum must be held in Southern Rhodesia, where some of the whites oppose Lyttelton's safeguards as "cotton-woolling" the blacks.* Sir Godfrey is sure that his plan will be accepted. One advantage of a united Rhodesia: if Prime Minister Malan detaches South Africa from the Crown as a Boer Republic, Britain will still have a strong bulwark on Malan's northern frontier...