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Unofficial Funds. Last week B.A.A.'s officials were hurling invective at Rhodesian Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky and pumping anti-white leaflets into apartheid-minded South Africa. But other agents were whittling away at the black regimes of the neighboring Ivory Coast and Togo, both of which Osagyefo (pronounced Oh-sah-jee-foe) would dearly love to annex. B.A.A.'s men were also active in the Congo, where Nkrumah sent top B.A.A. Agent Nathaniel Welbeck to guide Patrice Lumumba and advance his plan to bring the 14 million Congolese into Greater Ghana's political league. When...
First Gong. The plan must still be sold to the Northern Rhodesians, and that will be harder. Only the moderate multiracial Liberal Party, which stands to win a good number of the swing seats, endorsed the scheme. Kaunda and his fellow nationalists might eventually cooperate, on the theory that the new constitution is at least a big step forward. But that will still leave the toughest nut to crack-the white settlers. In the Northern Rhodesian capital of Lusaka, the five elected members of the governing executive council, all members of Welensky's United Federal Party, resigned in protest...
Obsessed simply with the idea of secession from the federation, the nationalist leader of Nyasaland, Dr. Hastings Banda (who is respected perhaps above all Africans), has walked out of the conference twice. The second time he dragged the Northern and Southern Rhodesian leaders out the door as well, in an attempt to unite the Africans delegations against their most powerful enemies: Sir Roy Welensky, the Federal Prime Minister, and Sir Edgar Whitehead, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia...
Firmly backed by the colonial government, police arrested scores of troublemakers, and the courts wasted no time in imposing fines and warning of jail terms for second offenders. As violence subsided, Rhodesian whites tried boycotting. Throughout the copper belt, cafe owners moaned that their white customers were nowhere to be seen...
Credit for the smiles belonged to Iain Macleod, Britain's able Colonial Secretary, who four months ago freed Banda from a Rhodesian jail and allowed him to re-enter politics. "When you released me from prison," Banda told Macleod in London, "you were sticking your political neck out. You won my confidence completely-completely, without reservation...