Word: monckton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatically the guests of honor at any party they attend, as though he were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman Robert Young, the invariable Florida host of the duke and duchess...
...Monckton group included secession only as a "safety valve" and clearly expressed its hope that no state would opt out. But portly Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky was outraged that the word had even been mentioned. The Monckton report is "the death knell of federation," he snapped. "I and my colleagues reject it out of 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...
Despite wave after wave of African protest riots, the federation's 297,000 whites, outnumbered 26 to 1, held on grimly in the conviction that federal unity is the very foundation of white rule. Late last year, worried Mother Britain appointed the 26-member Monckton Commission to recommend constitutional changes designed to salvage the federation. Last week the commission's report was published, and the federation's whites angrily concluded that Britain was about to sell them...
...Monckton report flatly urges that the federation's present central structure be wiped away. In its place would be a loose association of three semi-autonomous territories-Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The central government would retain control only of foreign policy, defense, and broad economic matters. The new territories would have power to levy taxes of their...
...Nyasaland, nationalism runs so high that last year's Moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Robert H.W. Shepherd, not long ago found that he could not safely visit some of his own mission stations because he was associated with the unpopular Monckton Commission to study the federation of Nyasaland and Rhodesia. In the course of his investigations, Dr. Shepherd also learned that one of his lay preachers and elders was on trial for murdering a "witch" and that the house of his church's education secretary had been stoned...