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...crucial issue before the conference was: Who would control Kenya's new Legislative Council as the colony moved on to independence? Since the blacks and whites of Kenya could not agree among themselves, Britain's astute new Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, offered a plan of his own. It called for an intricate set of direct and indirect elections, under which 37 seats out of 65 in the new Legislative Council would be held by Africans. Twenty seats would be reserved to Europeans (10), Asians (8) and Arabs (2), but voted on by the entire electorate. This, in diluted...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans...
...colonialism are over. Nobody mentioned Algeria around the table under the glittering chandelier of London's Lancaster House last week, as the Kenya Constitutional Conference entered its second week. But in a way, the 48 Africans, Asians, Arabs and Europeans had been called into session by Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod to prevent any Algerias in Kenya...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...
Last week's Kenya constitutional conference got off to the worst possible start. As Iain Macleod entered the room for his formal opening speech, the chairs of the 14 elected African members were empty. Dryly extending his welcome to "those of you who are here," Macleod quickly explained what had happened. The African elected members had requested a second special adviser. Their first adviser is Thurgood Marshall, the U.S. Negro lawyer who pleaded the antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain...