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...spend time converting me to the principle of independence. That is agreed to now without further ado." So said British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod three weeks ago to delegates from Sierra Leone. Britain's earliest (colonized in 1787) possession on the West African coast. Last week, after notably amicable discussions, Macleod and Sierra Leone's Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai announced that come April 27, 1961, the 2,500,000 Sierra Leoneans will be free...
...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 will probably become a Prime Minister within five years...
...Britain's able, ambitious Colonial Secretary Iain MacLeod who took the bold gamble. The white Rhodesians who dominate the Central African Federation tried to dissuade him. They pointed out that Banda, self-styled "extremist of the extremists," had fought for a separate, all-black Nyasaland. shouting, "To hell with the federation!" Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead had even warned darkly that if the blacks gained control in the north, Southern Rhodesia would secede from the federation...
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...Mboya had taken what he could get from Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, and he proclaimed, at his own big welcome-home, that the agreement was just "an instrument to use" in getting more-and getting it more quickly. "As to the future of white settlers, there's no room for anyone who does not believe in undiluted democracy. Those Europeans who hesitate have only one alternative, and that's to sell out and leave...