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...unity.") The British hint that they will be watching closely before deciding whether or not to restore Kenyatta's eligibility to hold political office. But since they have promised Kenya independence-possibly by next summer-their control over the Burning Spear is at best temporary. British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod himself has said: "As time goes on, Africans will be in the majority position and their voice will be the predominant voice." And quite possibly. the predominant voice in Kenya will be that of Jomo Kenyatta...
...that black control of Northern Rhodesia would destroy his Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, he hinted darkly of secession from British control unless the reins remained in the hands of Northern Rhodesia's 75,000 whites. Caught in the middle, Britain's hard-pressed Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod last week finally produced a labyrinthine new constitutional proposal that left everything up in the air. So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain...
Jomo has a personal stake in the struggle: his own freedom. Governor Renison -who once described Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death"-has agreed to move Jomo soon to a more pleasant location in the Kenya highlands, but still in confinement. In London, British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod backed Renison's stand in Parliament...
Since then, Salisbury has sulked, turning a smoldering Tory eye on Macmillan's "liberal" policy of giving independence to the African colonies, and on Macmillan's witty, untitled Colonial Secretary. Iain Macleod, 47, the Tory most talked about as a future Prime Minister...
Salisbury had brought into the open a deeply felt split among the Tories. His is the voice of the past, but it could do damage to Harold Macmillan in the present, and it undoubtedly did something to dim the future luster of Iain Macleod...