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...gleaming white Nairobi residence amid its sprawling gardens, inviting the European elite in for an occasional cocktail party (with Lady Renison keeping a close personal eye on the liquor bills). He is particularly disliked by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, who will probably be independent Kenya's first ruler. In 1960, opposing Jomo's release from detention as a ringleader of the 1952"59 Mau Mau terror, Renison warned that Kenyatta would lead the country to "darkness and to death...
...there remained the fateful fact of a number of communications between the U.S. and a foreign power on which the U.S. people had not been given the details. These might contain further terms of the contract to which each ruler had committed his country. If so. the sooner the President made them public, the better for him and his nation...
Machiavelli's Pupil. Erlanger makes it clear that 16th century behavior must not be cut to fit 20th century motives. In particular he observes that separation of church and state was not an unpopular idea in the 16th century; it was not an idea at all, and a ruler to whom it had been expressed would have found it incomprehensible...
Catholic Spain was the dominant power in Europe, and the fact that Spain's Philip II was Catherine's son-in-law did not prevent him from being an ominous potential enemy. Between Philip and England's Elizabeth, the most powerful Protestant ruler, Catherine ran an erratic but coolly steered course. Like a skilled chess player who knows that an immediate decision will ruin him, she sought complications, talked away several years seeking a ridiculous marriage between the middle-aged Elizabeth and her degenerate...
...KANU's boss, Jomo is not only out of jail and rehabilitated, but is also the hottest prospect to be Kenya's first ruler when the colony becomes a nation, possibly within a year. So far, the electioneering has been fairly moderate, but trouble is threatened by something called the Land Freedom Army, a mysterious group of Kikuyu tribesmen with terrorist aims, who have gathered in the forests to revive the hideous Mau Mau oathing ceremonies over carcasses of strangled cats. Like the Mau Mau, they have begun slipping onto white farmers' property by night to maim...