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THE, CHINA MAIL," MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1957.

THE COLONIAL VOLCANO

By HAROLD JAMES

mid-day

London.

Government will not balente should publish the terms for the disguised as a democrat, waite From its responsibilities to world to judge.

and confidently. In patiently the race for the political lend- Cyprus. Nor wil be badger- ed by U.N.O, NATO, Mr

ership of Nigerin he is forging Dr Dulles, or any other outsider.

Azikiwe.

Mc Mintoff has been holding out for a blank cheque, And that Britain refuses to givo,

ahead of Eastern Premier today," Colonial Secretary Alan "A Lomax Boyd once told his guests at a luncheon,

"all was quiet in the Colonial Offico.

"Whether it is so now, I don't know."

Mr Lennox-Boyd has been sitting on top of the colonial volcano ainco 1964.

He has found the quietest territories can erupt without notice.

The motto over the door of his department should bc: "Never a dull moment."

waiting ciments in Britain's colonial empire,

And it is a good while the House Is in recess and

time now- of Commons Members of

It will try once more to resch settlement--but not an agreed one Imposed by a third party. The plan will be Britain's own,

Time is not on, Mr Mintoff's for It is increasingly alde, evident that, with the prospect KENYA If Britain were to scuttle from of nuclear warfare and an at- Cyprus Or accept American tenuated British Beet, the im- dictation in a solution, the portance of Maila as a fostress Government would be out, for and as a naval dockyard is on there would be a flare-up among the decline, its rank-and-ale far exceeding any Tory revolt of recent years. of this the Prime Minister hus

terms.

Certainly there are brooding, Parliament are making them been made aware in the plainest

to their cOMI- selves pleasant stituents to survey the colonies and perhaps try to foresee what is going to happen next.

What, if anything, is cooking?

dors Aro sleeping

really sleeping-or are they watching Whitchall through half-closed eyes, ready to pounce when the

Are sleeping dogs really sleeping or are they waiting with half closed eyes watching Whitehall?

★ Cyprus

what new card does the Covernment hold, and plan to throw?

★ Malta

is England engaged to a frippet, and will the wedding go through?

★ Ghana

how important is it that this little State wins out? ★ Nigeria

there was some foolish talk in London at a-time) that wasn't a time for fools.

★ Kenya

so everyone thinks different-but they all think it's time to have a talk.

★ Malaya

will people abide by Merdeka compromises that have pleased no one so far or will communal rivalry be unleashed?

* Trinidad

tact, not toughness, is needed-and a first rate team, not the "second eleven."

time is ripe?

There is, as yet, no desire in London to trade on this. What

to has been offered to Molla has been offered as a tribute the steadfastness of her people in two world wars,

GHANA

The new approach, whatever form it may take, will be largely the business of the Foreign mee. It will be a matter of bringing Greek and Turk to- gether, and here Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd has NOW to Africa, where Ghast, strong carYi In his hand the having moved to indepen- threat of partition. No one dence, is no longer a colony. But

lites it, but it could be

the Ghana, now and in the future, ultimate sanction,

in Colonial Africa.

Normally, the interval be tween summer and autumn sees a lull in colonial affairs. AR cften as not, the Colonial Secretary, ho will be this MALTA

on tour. In QRF summer, is case, with the House absent, it is not the occasion for big de- cision.

CYPRUS

TU

TURN now to another trouble

spot in the Mediterranean.

But it is also. duc,

arouse

to the playing down of conten- piny. tious issues likely 10 rucial Jealousies. If the ice has been thin at times politicians have skated over it without anything more ominous than { few cracks.

In part, toughness, is the right card to

There are no people in tho world more ready to help tho underdog than the Americans, no country quicker to stand up to threats.

tho More important will be All has been subordinated to

decisions to be taken in tho attain "Merdelsa" freedom; but next few months by political la theirs, will leaders in the West Indies as to the other side of Africa, once freedom Kenya promises to be most. Mainya and Chinese abide by where their future Hes. For the in the public cyc in the next few comproiaises which have pleased constitution-wrongly, to many months.

visit of

one7 Me no

Or will communal think-lays down that no one Lennox-Boyd will almost cer- rivalry be unleashed?

can alt in both the Federal and tainly provide an occasion for

local legislatures, "Take away the Brish cement and the edifice will constitutional position, the three races to discuss the

This means that Mr Norman fall to pieces," is the considered Manley must decide whether to opinion Di many who know remain as Chief Minister Malaya. For the sake of Malaya, Jamaica, ar to cast in his and for the sake of the British with federal politics. investor, it is to be hoped that the prediction is untrue,

The

In

There is, of course, atli being the pledge given by the then Colonial Secretary, Mr Oliver

Lyttelton, that there should be a standstill on this

there until 1900-unless

was

general agreement on a change, But even the right-wing ele- ment among the Europeans coming to feel it will be

for

TRINIDAD

of lot

It requires no great foresight to see that, if he goes for the latter, he will be the Prime a federal legisla- Minister In ture and, before long, the Prime Minister of a new dominion,

will have considerable influence the good of the country if the federation except a home, tion, it is to be hoped, that he

future pattern of constitutional development is discussed and For while Trinidad has

In

TN the West Indies, all is set for

been a site

For the sake of the Federa-"

will opt for the wider sphere. selected as the capital, British

Dr Williams has already has yet to be determined, It made up his mind. He wil would be a generous gesture on stay in Trinidad pelitles. All the part of the United States to one can say is flat It augurs felcase part of Chaquaremos, badly for the federation it other It is impossible 10 predict their coveted base in the island, leading political lights follow

but there will be more chance his

federation example, The But what of this happening when Dr Erle has many problems ahead. It

as

greed upon now, rather than a Neighbouring etates, and French, wait to see whether wait until 1960, with the risk of sho will make a success of her mutual bitterness increasing

sintus. newly-found

African the interval. notionalists in East and Central Africa, secing themselves

le Nkrumah, pray that she what the outcome of such dis- will win through. European re- cussions might be. ectionaries in the same part of can be said with some certainty Williams. Trinidad's Chief wants a first-rate team, not a

will depend on Minister, realises that tact not the world, and white opinion in is that much

of Britain's the Union, hope that she will abour Party told

Labour Party told Kenya trade uelon leader, Mr Tom Mboya, in London.

It is now well over a year since Sir Anthony Eden pledges Britain to the polley of integra- tion with Malta. From April, BUT for one colonial territory, 1956, the plan has hung fire.

there is no "close season" thanks to Mr Mintoff's propen- fall. That la Cyprus. And if Cabinet sity for bargaining. Ministers arc recalled from holiday because of it, it will be just too bad.

It is common knowledge that the Government has planned a new approach to the problem of Cyprus, to be disclosed at the appropriate moment and cer tainly before Greece alms the

ret blow là UNO.

Negotiations have been pro- longed by his illness-a genuine one, incidentally, and not, some have alleged, a diplomatie indisposition.

ta

At the moment, it looks as if Chana is in for trouble. "We are bound to make mistakes." sald Dr Nkrumah just before he

left London.

Ils contacts with them were

£1

frequent and close, At least,

would seem an, for when Parliamentary journalist, seeing Tom Mboya waiting about in "if he could the lobby, asked

thocks. 1'in just waiting for help, he got the answer: "No, Nye, meaning of course, Mr Aneurin Bevan.

Even so, there has been mora Berely was he back in Accra haggling over the terms of Bri- than the first one occurred, The tin help to Malta than, over a deputy editor of Ghana's big deal in an Eastern bazaar.

gest newspaper was deported. This not only aftronied the Britain has almost certainly Commonwealth press, but also Speculation over the Govern-

It is re- cnused folk to wonder whether It is unlikely that Labour often made her last offer. ment's intention is rife,

will have committed contradictory.

In the fears of a Nkrumah dictatorship leaders probably ported to be generous and

themselves to any time-table and I Me Mintoff might not be justified, wrong. But on two points it is extreme,

for political advance in Kenya, to be positive:

the Government possible

the

universsi or to the adoption As a result, Ashant is again

suffrage In a state of tension, It only without first atong period

and a

roll of needs a spark

probation in the form of selec-. flagration.

live suffrage and firm guaran- tees for minorities.

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THE next month or two may. see more light on the so- called British "base" in Kenya. In fact, it has never been Ils success or failure, sy- proposed that there should chologically at any rate, will be a "base" in the ordinary shape the pattern of Indepen- sense of the word, in East dence in Africa.

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NIGERIA

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for

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of the

be foolish the Nigeria con- delegation will see eye to eye stitutional talks at Lancaster over this. Certain it is that "i: House.

will give rise to a lengthy de-

bate on Westminster before the Incredible though it may year is out.

seem, some Eastern Nigerians threatened to resort to force to

obtain "freedom" before the pre- MALAYA posed tentative date.

This will find no echo

In

North or Weal Nigeria, whose AND, of course, Malaya has premiers know that the gaps just inoved from Colony to

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