Current Intelligence Weekly Summary

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CURRENT INTELLIGENCE WEEKLY SUMMARY
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POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND
A series of elections and
constitutional talks is under way
in the Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland. The purpose is to
provide a basis for further con-
stitutionalnegotiations between
Britain and representatives of
the Federation and of its three
constituent territories. Talks
aimed at revising the federal
structure may begin early next
year. Nyasaland's Hastings Banda
expects the Federation to be dis-
solved by the end of 1963.
Northern Rhodesian elections
on 30 October, held under ex-
tremely complicated procedures,
failed to give any party a clear
Federation 0f Rhqdesiq and Nyusu u
to be held on 14 December. The ar-
rangements for these have already
been condemned by the UN General
Assembly. Africans--between 15
and 18 of them--will have seats
in the 65-member legislature for
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along racial lines. Of the 45 Q; hm. x hflwmmlegislative seats, eleven are :1. i7V‘L e
?m“l /still unfilled; the remainder §;;_ fig J» 1 "o 1
are divided among two African ggggg h F
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parties--which favor the breakup i§§§é>;_ " 4. ~®MmWW ; 1
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Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky's ;§?i?i;m;%;éL SOUTHERN gy 1
United Federal Party. Elections RHODESIA I
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seats are unlikely to shift the K§£fjj@,;éfé#%@q pp Cmmd
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balance significantly. Britain, ;i;§égg§§§;g§§”§;;+wh'ch still has ultimate res on "*“?*;i%¢;?*“'?WY“
U;ment, may find it impossible to .mai;;il;;iii;1r.“ ,.§....
put together a stable combination. ”
African nationalist Kenneth
Kaunda's party, the clear choice
of the African majority, may turn
to violence rather than attempt
to promote its program in the
new legislature. -
On 12 November, talks on the
constitution of Nyasaland are to
open in London.Banda and his fol-
lowers--African nationalists who
have been the most vociferous op-
ponents of the white-dominated
Federation--have been in effective
control of their territory for
more than a year. Both Britain
and the Nyasalanders expect the
talks to set a date for Nyasaland's
internal self-government. Banda
says, however, that he will not
leave London until Britain an-
nounces that the Federation will
be dissolved.
In white-controlled Southern
Rhodesia, legislative elections are
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the first time. African national-
ists, however, call this advance
inadequate, and most of the eli-
gible Africans will boycott the
elections. Prime Minister White-
head and the Southern Rhodesian
section of the United Federal
Party seems certain to win a
majority of the seats. Whitehead
then plans to push ahead with a
long-promised program of economic
and social reform which favors the
Africans. Whitehead is also try-
ing to detach Joshua Nkoma and
other relative moderates from the
extremists who dominated the lead-
ing African nationalist party
before it was banned on 20 Septem-
ber. By liberalizing his policy
and simultaneously encouragingthe
moderates, Whitehead hopes to bring
into being a mass African party
which will work within a constitu-
tional framework. However, the
odds are against him, and further
racial unrest seems like1y.i4444444T
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