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When able, ambitious Iain Macleod asked Harold Macmillan for a crack at running the Colonial Office after the 1959 elections, he knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician. Last week African nationalists, white settlers and a sizable bloc of Tory M.P.s all had a try at breaking Macleod in a bitter fight over the political future of racially divided Northern Rhodesia. At stake, along with Macleod's neck, is survival of the entire Central African Federation, a wobbly, three-state union as big as Texas, California and New York...
After 15 minutes of the first period, B.U. wing Dave MacLeod opened the scoring when he picked up a loose puck near his own blue line, got a jump on the Crimson defense, and raced down the ice to fire an unassisted goal past Bland. MacLeod added another score in the second period, which, together with Mike Denihan's goal, on a pass from Bill Quinn, put the Terriers ahead...
Like an umpire stricken with palsy, Mr. Ian Macleod, Britian's Colonial Secretary, sits fluttering in his chair in London as the conference on federal constitutional review for Rhodesia and Nyasaland only continues to reveal the intransigeance of both sides...
...tactics of the two ministers have left the mild Mr. Macleod helpless. It was hoped, when Mr. Macmillan chose him to replace Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (who was able to deny harshly the no doubt valid Devlin Commission report that found the imprisonment of Dr. Banda quite unnecessary) that some softer glances might be directed toward nationalism in Central Africa. But it is at least clear now that unless some official of very great authority removes Sir Roy and Sir Edgar, the Federation, in Dr. Banda's words, "is dead. All that remains now is to bury...
...hand." Most white Rhodesians agreed. But no matter what the whites said or thought, Britain was clearly determined to make drastic changes when all sides sat down to discuss the new constitution in December. Addressing the Tories' national convention at Scarborough last week. Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod declared: "I cannot promise you a popular colonial policy, but this is the road we must walk, and we can walk no other...