Word: vasey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya. In Mau Mau-scarred Kenya, where 40,000 whites rule 6,000,000 mostly illiterate Negroes, Ernest Vasey, 53, the cigar-chewing Minister for Finance, shocked the diehards by demanding a vote for Africans. Vasey urged that a limited number of educated Africans be allowed to participate in Kenya's next election-not on the high-minded ground that democracy demands it, but out of the hardheaded consideration that the alternative to votes is likely to be violence...
...recognize," said Vasey, a man whom Kenyans listen to, "that what a number of us would regard as the 'wrong type' of African might be elected. But it is better that such opinion should be out in the open where it can be seen, than driven underground where it is whispered and often unheard until fairly well consolidated." The whites, he warned, must recognize that "because an African voices a grievance, he is not necessarily disloyal...