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...more and more Negroes reach "civilized" standards (literacy and an income of at least $560 a year) and thereby qualify to vote, the whites are beginning to worry that eventually they will be swamped. "We are financing Negro education so that they can outvote us," complained one white settler...
...uplands of Kenya last week, Mau Mau bands emerged from hiding and struck hard at the noose of steel that British security forces are painfully tightening around them. Sixty terrorists poured 500 rounds of Sten-gun and rifle fire into one isolated farmstead, but a brave settler and his wife drove them off with a single rifle. Others attacked the home of 93-year-old Margaret Mallet, Kenya's oldest European woman, but were driven off by loyal Africans...
...given command of the ist Virginia Regiment and the responsibility for protecting every scattered settler on its borders. He learned hard lessons: the difficulties of recruiting Americans for military service, the harsh necessity of discipline (once he hanged two deserters on a 40-ft. gallows to impress his less than ardent troops), the jealousy and backbiting inherent in public service...
From the tangled, blue fastness of the Aberdare Mountains, a Mau Mau leader named Simba ("The Lion") wrote last week to a white settler: "I have just returned from a course for brigadiers in Abyssinia, and have under my command one division of 12,000 men, 400 machine guns, 300 Bren guns, 100 Sten guns, 10,000 rifles and 40 mortars . . . I could wipe out 50 battalions . . ." Next day, with a band of hand-picked warriors, he struck hard at the settler's estate...
Southern Rhodesia is a settler's colony, poised on the threshold of industrialism. Population: 150,000 whites; 2,000,000 Bantus (mostly Matabeles and Mashonas). Last week the British government formally agreed to federate it with the copper-rich protectorate of Northern Rhodesia and neighboring Nyasaland...