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Mau Mau Problem
M
TR. Oliver Lyttelton's Admission in the House of Commons this week that the situation in Kenya had become worse merely con- firmed what the news of the day made apparent, The expectations of Mau Mac terrorism being quickly stamped out by strong punitive measures have not been fulfilled. The Mau Mau society has a much stronger grip on. the nativo population than WRA suspected when it first began operations, and there are disconcerting signs that the Kikuyus are unwilling to ronist the coercive influence of the terrorists. Recriminations against the Authorities for allowing the secret society to develop and flourish, serve no useful purpose al this time. Nevertheless it is a matter for wonder that the Kenya Government did not possess fuller information about the existence of the Mau Mau in the early stages of its development: or, if it did possess the knowledge, morn energetic mensures
word
not taken immediately to render the organisation Innocuous. A situation has now been created where it is necessary to apply the practice of communal punishment and
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No. 35371-
Established 1845
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1952.
Commonwealth
Conference Begins
NOT A CRISIS MEETING
SAYS CHURCHILL
London, Nov. 27.
The Prime Minister. Mr Wins'on Churchill, told the Commonwealth Prime Ministers meeting here tonight that their talks would be vital for the future prosperity of the Commonwealth.
In a 10-minute address of welcome to the statesmen of eight over- seus countries, Mr Churchill declared that they were about to embark on a planning conference not a crisis meeting.
This was the difference between the present gathering and the previous postwar Commonwealth finance conferences, Mr Churchill said. heads of delegations After Mr Churchill's address of welcome, all the made brief replies.
Astor's
£974,700
Estate
London, Nov. 27. Viscount Astor left
Flavenga
Mr
were
Mr Nicholas
of headed by their Finance Minis- South Africa said the ultimate ters, because their Prime Minis-
of the conference's ters, SUCCOSA
Jawaharlal Nehru efforts to restore convertibility and Dr Daniel Malan,
to London, of sterling and freer multilateral unable to trade depended largely on the
FIRST TASK willingness of the United States to face the
creditor position in reter in relation to the rest of the world.
settlement, we
Was
slatesmen
H
The
their held Cabinet room meeting in the at No. 10 Downing Street, Mr Churchill's official residence. He said: "When the United Their task tonight was to agree Kingdom occupied the position on procedural arrangements so cin get world's financial centre that the conference of the arrests in order to wrest
the
generally down right away tomorrow to and sterling power from the Mau Mau. This type of action has
the sterling accepted means of international the job of drawing up a master
were not faced plan for putting
urea economy on firm foot- earned the criticism of Mr British estate of £974,700, with a persistent shortage of Griffith, former Labour the bulk of it going to the starling. This was for the sim- ing. Colonial
Before sitting round the table who tax collector, his eldest son ple reason that the United King- sees in it the danger of and his Virginia-born wife, dom was preparing not only to the delegation leaders who are
by to imports from accompanied
20 other turning the whole of the Lady Nancy Astor.
open its doors other countries but also to in-ministers and teams of advisers, Kikuyu tribe against the
The will of the New York-vest. Its surplus carnings in the were filmed by television and British authorities as well
born nobleman, who died on development of the resources in newsreel cameras. Each In tur September 30 at 73, was filed for the outside world."
exchanged greetings with Mr Churchill before the lenses. probale today but made no men- Mr Havenga Baid conditions
The first Prime Minister to tlon. of his American Iortune, had changed materially since
efforts arrive at Downing Street was the founded by his German im- then, But
Mr Louis St. Laurent of Canada. migrant great grandfather, John which the sterling area wale was accompanied by hit Death duties took £500;1830king to put its own house in Finance Minister, Mr Douglas
order were matched by a corres- Abbott,
As the white settlers in Kenya and other parts of East Afrlen.
Jacob Astor.
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Young King Feisal of Iraq performs the inauguration ceremony of the Iraq Oil Fetroleum Company's new 30 in. pipeline, at Kirkuk. Present at the ceremony
WETS King's Uncle, Prince Regent Abdul Nish and Admiral of the Fleel. Sir John Cunningham,
the board of chairman of Directors of the company. The now pipeline, which cost £41,000,000, carries a capacity load of 13,000,000 tons of oil a year over the 555 miles from Kirkuk to Banias on the Medi- terranean, and will make good iba. loss sustained by the enforced cessation of other pipelines.London Express.
Bevan Elected To Shadow Cabinet
London, Nov. 27.
POSTPONED Spiteful Speech By Vyshinsky
United Nations, Nov. 27.
The United Nations Political Committee to- night postponed its vote, on the Indian compromise Korean peace resolution in the hope of reaching the final ballot tomorrow,
"The decision to adjourn without a vote follow- ed one of Mr Andrei Vyshinsky's most invective- laden speeches, in which the Russian Foreign Minister referred to the Australian delegato as a "country bumpkin" and the Canadian as a "lapdog" and rejected the Indian measure again as an “un- worthy, rotten resolution".
.
Desplie Mr Vyshinsky's ип- "No amount of insulte OF yielding opposition, passage of epithets will affect me in any the Indian resolution was monuer," he said. "I simply issured with overwhelming claregard them. and remember support and with official
con
the Krylov table in my country firmation that the United of the lapdog who barked at an States would vote for it. A felephant. minor addition contained in The Inpdog sld: 'Let all know I am a big shot tecauce I dared to bark at an elephant." "I think rather poor lapdogs
the Danish amendment was certain to be adopted.
in
also
Mr Vyshinsky held the stage
otherwise an
jack-lustre have been elected allegorically
afternoon session. He retreated speaking, of course." from the position taken i!! วล
▾
*hia
previous speeches only by deny-
COUNTRY BUMPKIN
ing angrily that he had sought Later ho turned on to impugn in any way India's Australian Ambassador, integrity in introducing. compromise formula.
tho
the Percy Spender, who had spokers
and
carlier in the debate, The Soviet Minister sald Mr demanded: "Did you come here Lealic Knox Munro of New from a village where no newes
hod Zealand
charged
If you that papers are pubilshed? the Russia "spurned"
Indian did, we cannot have a discLES – fon. A country bumpkin is a resolution.
country bumpkin
DENIES CONTEMPT
Of the resolution itself, Mar Vyshinsky
"I warn the "That is incorrect," be stated. "Where did I display contempt? this unworthy, retten resolution, Committee against adoption of Only because I rejected the re- There must be some modicum solution? Did I in any way of logde here. This is an attempt. Inpum the honour of the In- to distort reality" dian delegation? When the
should not
Menon is honest."
Mr
20
President asked me, I said that Australia carllor had charged Mr Menon was honest. It was that the Soviet proposal for s asked of me tactlessly. We immediato ceasefire was an ers
pimed pedlent
at holding discuss whether United Nations prisoners Vyshinsky
ky is honest or Mr hostages" so the political ends the Soviet Union hoped which Krishna. Menon, who to gain in the Far East could be drafted the Indian compromise attained. on Instructions from the Indian Sir Percy Spender lashed out Prime Minister, Mr Jawaharlal engrily at the newest Soviet He derided Nehru, served notice that he in- peace proposals. tended to speak tomorrow after-amendments to the Indian draft
presented by Mr Vyshinsky. Senor Joao Carlos Muniz, who convey to the world the im The Committee chairman, Ho sald that Russia desired to
| ́had hoped to get a vote on the pression" "that" the Soviet Union
Indian measure
today
re had a monopoly on the desire the 60- dor peace not only in Korea luctantly adjourned
but in the world at large" nation group. the
Left-wing Labourite Aneurin Bevan was elected on Thursday to the Labour Party's "Shadow Cabinet" in, the House of Commons.
Members of this 12-man group will fill Cabinet posta Steel Bill in the event of a change in governments. Given 2nd
THE fact that such extreme measures have had to be adopted also suggests that the Government's attempts
Only a handful of spectators to win the
more than half the total. The ponding willingness by the United active co- operation of the tribal chiefs eldest son, the third Viscount States to facilitate imports and saw the statesmen drive up one gets the residue after generous increase overseas Investments, he by one in their limousines flying have not mot with
provision for Lady Astor,
could see
the world the penints of their respective hope of по substantial measure of Viscount Astor, best known achieving the objectives of the countries. Reuter. success. It is not difficult to las 4 newspaper and race International Monetary Fund and appreciate the dilemma horse owner, wrote a special GATT (the General Agreement which confronts the Kenya clause in his will disinheriting ou Trade and Tariffs), Government. It is
"children" who are not Pro- up any against a
well organized testants.
The English will left nothing secret society which inds it
four younger children, to his easy to prey on the
who
were provided for out of superstitious susceptibili- the American estate, ties of the natives to such a The Viscount named his conference degree that even those most brother, John Jacob Astor,Sterling has now taken a plunge, willing to
loyal Chairman of the London Times, It must swim and not sink. remain to the Authorities find thema- together with the third Viscount plan must be evolved." selves driven
by fear to and other relatives to adminis- accept the dictates of the ter the estate, Мли
Mau. It has
thus
India's Finance Minister, Mr Chintaman Deshmukh, sald hel was convinced the conference
would go down as a landmark inj economic history,
"I cannot conceive of such a failing he said.
A
CONFIDENT The Prime Ministers of the inct Commonwealth
Reading
London, Nov. 27. The House of Commons He ordered them to use as British
cosh as become virtually impossible much
they deemed confidently here tonight in the by 305 votes to 269 tonight to distinguish between will necessary to meet the adequate biggest bid yet made to cure the approved the government Requirements" of his widow, ailing pound sterling and inject Bill to restore the state- ing and active members of who was Britain's first woman new life to world trade. the Mau May and those Member of ParlamentAsso-
All, except their Chairman, owned steel industry to natives who have been ciated Press.
the Prime Minister, Mr Winston private hands. Churchill, of Britain, had flown
coerced into the movement,
and the wholesale round-up
of Kikuyus together with
the confiscation of their Disastrous
cattle appears to be the only
action left which will Nairobi Fire
enable the Government
effectively to suppress the
Nairobi, Nov, 27. Pillars of smoke TOSC
thousands of miles through bad
By this majority of 36 vates, wenther to take part in a ten- the House gave the Bill its
we
day con
conference, which may second reading-agreement to its
affect the wealth and happiness broad principles. of a quarter of the woriti's
Bevan, leader of a group; Parliamentary debates for the demanding more rigid Social Opposition. On such occasions at home, had to wait until the their words are taken as. second round of voting to win official party viewpoint. one of the 15 Shadow Cabinet
places. He was soundly trounced in the first round balloting last wock, when six places "wero Alloc
Bevan, who never has shown any repentence for his open attacks on Attlee and the Moderate Socialists, thus is in a strange position.-Associated
Bevan and six of his chief Press, lieutenants were candidates. But
he was the only one among them
to climb into the Parliamentary
Bevan, who preaches a doctrine of less British dependence on Ammerlea, has been at olds with the Moderato leadership of the party, headed by former Prime Minister Clement Attice. for some years.
party's policy-making group. Labour Win
Bye-Election
London, Nov. 27. He and former President of the
Labour retained their Par- Board of Trade, Harold Wilson, Hamentary seat today in the The vote came as the end of a quit the Labour government Farnworth division bye-election. pation.
two-day debate.
back dr April 1951, in a row over
In A bye-election was held meeting lasted for a The Labour party nationalised the tougher socialism issac. Uttle over an hour. The second all the big arms in February Wilson
the the constituency today to fil will be held at the 1951. session
It has said it will Bevanite candidates who failed seat left vacant by the death of British Treasury tomorrow nationalise them again when the to get elected to the Shadow Mr George Tomlinson, Minister
of Education returns morning
partyment
to power.
Cabinet. Australian Prime Minis- The
Labour government. spokesmen Government
Mau Mau. Nevertheless it would appear to remain an thousand feet over Nairobi to- important responsibility of night as a raging fire consumed the Administration to con- a market in the industrial for
ter, Mr Robert Menzies, had claimed that their proposals
were described
tinue to seek the assistance suburb, where the body of an even left a sick bed to journey would take the industry out of of the loyal tribal chlofs in African leader was found hack- 12,000 miles to talks, which party
This would be exerting to the full theired to pieces earlier today.
as "the most party politice. done through
which a board influence over the natives to The fire swept through
supervise the industry in resist the coercive activities shanty town of wooden shacks 20 years"
The nations represented are: the public interest, of the Mau Mau. For if the whore African traders sold cloth-
Australia, Britain,
The board would be represen- Government loses the coming for other goods.
Ceylon, India, New Zealand, iative of the employers, workers Europeans and hundreds fidence of the loyal tribes-African police and firemen fought. Pakistan, South Africa, Southern and government. men, the task of eradicating the flames as they swept the Rhodesia and the Colonies.
This was a "middle of the Mau Mauism may become hall square mic market. The delegations of two edun-road" concentration of private impossible.
Reuter.
tries, India and South Africa, are coonomic power in Biltain
Router.
the important Empire meeting for you a board which
of
FRENCH PATROLS PUSH OUT
FROM BESIEGED NASAM
Hanol, Nov. 27.
Canada,
Famous London
Figure
Passes
was one of
IN LAST PLACE
the
former
The reports announced night gave. Labour
tow
'reduced
The result in a straight fight between Labour and Conserva- tive candidates was:
(Labour) Ernest, Thornton
Of the six elected on Thurs- day, Bevan came last.
The Ave others all are long-majority compared with the last time supporters of Attlee. Ceneral election.
Those elected on Thursday, in addition to Bevan, were:
Dr Edith Summerskill, for mer Health
Emanuel Minister Skinwell, former Defence Minis 21,834 lor; Philip Noel, Baker, former Relations Minis- Commonwealth ter: Glenville Hall,. former
portive) 14,015 Financial Secretary to the Trea-
H. Donald-Moore (Constrva—.
Labour majority of 7,210 The same seat was won by sury; and Sir Frank Soskich, Labourat the last general former Solicitor-General. ་་.;
The als elected last week Labour - Conservative
election, Alem, in astraight
Ede, formerly Horne
Officers Killed
Car Crash
In
Augsburg. Germany, Nov. 27.
fight were James Grinths, former with a majority of 0,185,-Neu- Colonial Secreinry:
Chuter ter.. Secretary Hugh Galtskell,
former cellor of the Exchequer, Alfred London, Nov. 27 Robens, former Labour Minis-
Hugh Dalton, another They burled Emmy (Lovely. Ber;
of the onetime Chancellor
EX- Violets") Baker on Thursday, The Communist besiegers of French-held Nasam allowed the outnumbered
choquet
and James Callaghani She had been a flower seller in defenders to push out patrols today in a cat and mouse game which left the High London's Piccadilly Circus for up-and-coming Labourite. Junior
00 yeard.
minister who had the post of Command guessing when the main Red assault might come.
radio listeners, Admiralty in Attlee's aid mort
ad-Force officers, belloved to be Vietminh mortar the mountainous Black River Her voice was familiar to Parliament Sexretary to the Reconnaladce patrols of 1 was
Violets, ministration.
from bases in France, were Algerian rillemen and sure-bombardment on one sector of Jungles 117 miles west of Hanol because her cry of
'Deputy Mr Attlee,
ty Leader killed early today when their violets," was purt of. the
Horbert Morrison, and Labourite car siddded into a truck south probed "several kilometres" small damage among the deeply coolie columns were bombed and
popular Floor Leader William Whiteley of here, the Army announced. Jolated French strong-entrenched defenders.
strafed. French planes dropped show In Town Tonight
The dead have not yet been hold without meeting the French aviation, meanwhile, napalm bomba wherever they Mrs Baker was, 78. Her pitch get Shadow Cabinet seats auto-
identined: Their names will ba camouflaged anemy, according took advantage of the continued could spot the characteristic in the Circus has been taken matically, without voting. to a bealiquarters communique. clear weather to attack three Vietminh sleeveless padded green over by her daughter-AssoOne of the big jobs of Shadow released after next of kin have
elated Frons
Cabinet" members la to opari been notifed-Bruter. The only other major activity! Vietminh regimenis gaibered in jackets-United Press,
Footcil local ~~~Thai: tribesmon] the Nasam defences. It 'caused Footpaths used by Communist "lovection to the
from the
וי
Three United States Afr
noon.
Eleven speakers were heard today and all, except Mr communist partner from Byclo- and Mr Kiselev, his Russia; endorsed
Indian proposal.
Mr Vyslunsky started by taking asue with Mr Paul
the
Sir Percy gave fils: support to the twice-amended rosolu- hold out tion, adding that it seemed
Boma chance
He acknowledged. Agreement.
rejection Russia's unqualified the plan and said, tressing beyond any words that
to for
of
is dis
Martin of Canada, whom he ac- I am capable of using to find cused of indulging in personall-
GO intransigent an attituda ties.
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