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...British declared a state of emergency and called out the Uganda irregulars, a collection of elderly colonials...
...required to "conform . . . and cooperate loyally with Her Majesty's Government." But since last summer, the Baganda have been demanding 1) a definite date for Buganda independence. 2) the transfer of Buganda affairs from the British Colonial Office to the Foreign Office. This would have meant splitting the Uganda protectorate into two unworkable enclaves-one for the proud Baganda. another for the 4,000,000 less-advanced tribesmen. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton turned down both requests, but when he ordered the Kabaka to withdraw them, Mutesa said no. He also threatened to boycott the more liberal constitution that Britain...
Next day, dressed in a chalk-striped grey suit, the Kabaka of Uganda sat in the gallery of the House of Commons and heard British democracy wrestle with its conscience (see below...
Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there...
Trouble in Uganda cuts deep, and lays a heavy burden on the British conscience. It leaves Whitehall less convinced that by giving way, it gains. Uganda is the showcase of British imperialism: prosperous (on coffee and cotton), well governed (by Sanders-of-the-River-style district officers), untouched by the racial discord that disfigures neighboring Kenya. Understandably, Britons argued that if Uganda is in peril, the Empire is nowhere safe...