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THE HOUSE
BANDA'S MEN
BURNED
DOWN.
IN. Nyasaland today you may sce the gutted foundations of a newly burned house. A crucifix still hangs on a ruined wall. This was the home of Mr Chester Katsonga, an African who. opposes Dr Banda's Malawi Congress Party.
The house was burned down by a Malawi mob while Kat. songa was away. His wife, his children and his 80-year-old father were allowed to escape only after pleading with their attackers for half an hour.
f
by
Anthony Lejeune
Strange behaviour, you may - think, for a party led by Dr Banda, who was missionary to London as delegate for the paper which is their mouthpiece, inst week described the Britich United Federal Party. educated and claims to be a
oystem as "on devout member of the
Banda has never shown him- two-party Church
self reluctant to float on the imbecile myth.". of Scotland.
stream of violence. · „As noon 19 The new Independent African Forty Africans have died of he finds himself addressing any States, he cald, would reject all of audience his quiet such "destructive myths and smallpox in Nyasaland during sort the past few months.
political superstitions," Malawi manner drops away.
for "I am prepared
nny. spokesmen have been tellinz people ordering them
thing," he cries from the plat OVED, with Berce threats not to be form, "Are you with me?" And yneeinated. The doctors, they back from an exelfed audience say, are stooges of the while comes the shout of "Yes! Yes! man. Vaccination, they add for good measure,
makes people sterilo.
In fear
Some of the Africans who have been vaccinated are hiding in the bush for fear of reprisals, When Dr Bauda was asked to condemn this campaign of in- limidation, ho refused,
Like Moses
When Banda dest came home Those people who still regard -"I am Uke Moses come home Bad as a "moderate" are hard to my people" was the way he put to it to indicate a single put the Nyasaland Govern- compromise he has ever openly ment did all it could to win his
co-operation. But he was Įn--
made.
Last summer's Nyasaland flexible. He felt his power. Conference ended in a measure Violence, he was now prepared of agreement because the other to say and says more loudly partica gave way. Whatever the still today, could not be ruled final soothing communique may out if his people failed to get have suggested, Banda never their way. yielded Inch.
Eventually he was imprisoned,
The Malawi poiliicians mean under suspicion of having been to rule. They have no intention connected with
plot
*
to
of accepting any opposition, mossacre Europeans, Strange behaviour, you may either white or black. Chlpem He was released this year. On think, för a doctor and a mom- bere, the editor of the news- April Fools' Day,
ber of the Nyasaland Branch
of the British Medical Associa- lion.
The campaign has not been directed anly against smallpox vaccination. Ordinary anti- malaria precautions have been made impossible; anti-rables inoculations have been hindered; and the World Health Organisa- tion's fight against tuberculosis J'almost halted.
No one supposes that Banda has personally authorised such behaviour. He has merely triggered it.
Violence
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He left Nyasaland in 1913, when he was 12, and did not return to Africa for nearly years, When he arrived back, ho announced: "Wo will con- duct our struggle by means passive resistance."
of
But violence has never been very far away. Nkrumah and Kenyatta are his friends. Apart from tow African intellectuals like himself the majority of his party are "bush Milawa,” men roved not by a balance of orguments but by the simplest, mest inflammatory ideas.
Chester Kalsongs is not the only African to have had his. house burned down. Chic! Chakumbira muffered "the same fate last summer when he came
GIFTS
Just Fancy That!
A Borstal bou who can satisfy a court that he suffers from STATE pension of £10 a week is suggested today for any incurable ergophobia (aversion to work).
Dr Charles Pollock, who organised a survey, says, "This would' allow him to live without being exposed to the constant dilemma of having to choose between working and stealing."
It costs about 210 a week to keep a boy in Borstal, the doctor cxplains,
TOM inside an oven at a Yokohama ereniatorium came
A
sepulchral volce: "Get the furnace going." The stoker paled. not it was only Japanese labourer Shigeru Matsumoto, ¡lted by his sweetheart," "This is no place for suloides,” police explained as they took him away.
A die 10th Jersey (St Aubin) Company Girl Guides has just
· SEALED bottle containing a note signed by members of
been washed up at St Malo on the French coast, 38 miles away. it was cast in the sea from St Aubin on June 9, 1938.
--(London Express Service).
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