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...famous "May 13" army-settler revolt in Algiers two years ago, sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, army commander in Algeria, was the first to cry "Vive De Gaulle" to the unruly crowd from his Algiers balcony. For months, Salan was grimly steadfast as De Gaulle went on to promise Algerians a referendum offering three choices, including independence. Two weeks ago, Salan had enough. "No one," he said defiantly, has a right "to decide to give up a portion of territory under French sovereignty, above all in Algeria." The colons and right-wing ultras of Algiers, hailed Salan as their...
...could find any legal grounds for intervening. Last week, as a warder solemnly posted announcement of the execution on the gate of Nairobi Prison, an African in the keyed-up crowd gathered outside cried: "Justice has been done; Macleod is with us!" Turning away in cold anger, a white settler muttered: "Now you've had your pound of flesh." Commented the London Spector: "It is a savage irony that future generations in Kenya will be able to point to 1960 as the year when the equality of the races was finally demonstrated, not by the granting of rights...
...long-horn herds and quick-trigger cowprods. By 1882 he had harvested a fortune of $300,000, and raised two spunky sons. But black-tempered John Cozad was too powerful for his own good-and power tends to corrupt those who lack, as well as those who wield it. Settler jealousy festered into hatred. When Cozad, in patent self-defense, gunned down a knife-flashing enemy, he had to skip town to avoid a lynching...
...make a stable, viable country out of three dissimilar territories carved out of the bush by Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes. The Federation consists of Nyasaland, copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, and Southern Rhodesia, the last being the only one of the three that includes a large (211,000) white settler population. It is Southern Rhodesia's whites, who are sentimentally linked to the South Africans in race policy, that Dr. Banda and Kaunda want to escape. Each is fresh from jail, released by Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the wind-through-Africa spirit, after serving sentences as political troublemakers. Each...
...leader of the European elected members, and as a member of the emergency Cabinet that fought Mau Mau terrorism, he was as determined as any settler to preserve the sanctity of the "white highlands." But last year, alarmed by the spreading gap between African and European (white) attitudes, he dramatically resigned as Minister of Agriculture and formed the New Kenya Group, a party resolved to break the white highlands monopoly, create a common electoral roll for all races, but preserve a special place for Kenya's 66,000 whites. "We must stop this racialism and build a Kenya nation...