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By LAWRENCE FELLOWS; Special to The New York Times
JULY 16, 1964
LONDON, July 15 — Britain agreed tonight to call a conference of Southern Rhodesians, black and white, to discuss terms on which the self‐governing colony would achieve inde‐ pendence.
Up until now Britain has resisted proposing such a conference, fearing that the Rhodesian Government, if pressed too hard, might unilaterally declare the colony independent.
Sir Alec Douglas‐Home, the British Prime Minister, also undertook to approach Ian D. Smith, the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, to try to persuade him to release African nationalists now detained.
Sir Alex was supported in this by a unanimous declaration of the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth that none of them would recognize a declaration of independence by the Southern Rhodesian regime.
The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference here was supposed to have ended at noon today. The agreement on a Rhodesian conference was reached nine hours later. It helped to relieve the tension that resulted when a young white man assaulted Jomo Kenyatta, Prime
The 74‐year‐old Prime Minister and a policeman were hurled against the open door of Mr. Kenyatta's car so hard that its side was dented and the hinges on the door sprung so badly that it could not be closed.
As the Kenyan leader emerged from the hotel, John Tyndall, an official of the British National Socialist Movement, started a harangue with a power speaker from the opposite side of Park Lane.
“Kenyatta, go back to Africa!” he shouted.
A 21‐year‐old physician's clerk, Martin Allen Webster, dashed toward Mr. Kenyatta as he was about to step into his automobile. He bounced off the shoulder of a policeman and into the Prime Minister.
As the policeman, a chauffeur and British and Kenyan security officers grappled with Webster, Tyndall's voice rose even higher.
“This is the man who murdered our white brethren in Africa!” he screamed. [/b[He apparently referred to the Mau Mau terrorism in Kenya during the decade that preceded Kenya's independence from Britain. Mr. Kenyatta was imprisoned by the British on a charge of having led the terrorist movement.
Mr. Kenyatta sat in the car until after Webster and Tyndall were taken away in a police van. Then he issued a statement saying he was “completely unhurt,” and appealed to the people of Kenya to “remain calm and not rely on possible exaggerated reports.”
Duncan Sandys, Britain's Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, was waiting with the other conference delegates at Marlborough House when he heard of the assault.
He rushed to the hotel and took Mr. Kenyatta back with him to Marlborough House. The Kenyan scowled at photographers as he entered the conference room, where he complained to Sir Alec Douglas‐Home, the British Prime Minister.
Africans' Demand
A formal protest, complainingof inadequate security precautions, was lodged afterward with the Commonwealth Relations Office by Dr. J. Njuguna Karanja, Kenya's High Commissioner in London.
Sir Alec issued a statement saying he was “greatly dis‐ stressed” to learn that Mr. Kenyatta had been the victim of this “deplorable attack.”
Through the week‐long conMr. Kenyatta carried the burden of the argument by the seven African delegations on Southern Rhodesia. This was that Britain should use her authority to dismantle the colony's complicated electoral laws, which keep its white minority in political power.
Speaking for all Commonwealth countries in Africa, the Kenyan leader insisted that African nationalists detained in Southern Rhodesia be released at once.
He asked that Britain convene a representative conference to draw up a new constitution around the principle of “one man, one vote,” in opposition to the weighted‐voting system.
The other Commonwealth delegations gradually fell in behind the hardened African demand for a constitutional conference. Sir Alec maintained, however, that he did not want Britain to be hurried into any action that would prompt the Southern Rhodesian government to seize independence.
Mr. Kenyatta's assailant appeared in court on charges of having assaulted Mr. Kenyatta and a policeman and having used threating behavior with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.
Tyndall, who is 30 years old, was charged with having used insulting words that could have led to a breach of the peace. Both men were released on bail.
Webster said he had not assaulted the policeman. “I may have bumped his shoulder as I went by him,” he said.
Constable Edward Cooper declared, “I immediately grappled with the man and we both fell on Mr. Kenyatta.”
Both the policeman and Webster are big men. Together with the great size of Mr. Kenyatta, this suggested how easily the three of them, landing at once on the Prime Minister's Daimler, could have caused it so much damage.
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Prime Minister of Kenya Is Attacked by a British Fascist in London
JULY 16, 1964
LONDON, July 15 — Britain agreed tonight to call a conference of Southern Rhodesians, black and white, to discuss terms on which the self‐governing colony would achieve inde‐ pendence.
Up until now Britain has resisted proposing such a conference, fearing that the Rhodesian Government, if pressed too hard, might unilaterally declare the colony independent.
Sir Alec Douglas‐Home, the British Prime Minister, also undertook to approach Ian D. Smith, the Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister, to try to persuade him to release African nationalists now detained.
Sir Alex was supported in this by a unanimous declaration of the Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth that none of them would recognize a declaration of independence by the Southern Rhodesian regime.
The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference here was supposed to have ended at noon today. The agreement on a Rhodesian conference was reached nine hours later. It helped to relieve the tension that resulted when a young white man assaulted Jomo Kenyatta, Prime
The 74‐year‐old Prime Minister and a policeman were hurled against the open door of Mr. Kenyatta's car so hard that its side was dented and the hinges on the door sprung so badly that it could not be closed.
As the Kenyan leader emerged from the hotel, John Tyndall, an official of the British National Socialist Movement, started a harangue with a power speaker from the opposite side of Park Lane.
“Kenyatta, go back to Africa!” he shouted.
A 21‐year‐old physician's clerk, Martin Allen Webster, dashed toward Mr. Kenyatta as he was about to step into his automobile. He bounced off the shoulder of a policeman and into the Prime Minister.
As the policeman, a chauffeur and British and Kenyan security officers grappled with Webster, Tyndall's voice rose even higher.
“This is the man who murdered our white brethren in Africa!” he screamed. [/b[He apparently referred to the Mau Mau terrorism in Kenya during the decade that preceded Kenya's independence from Britain. Mr. Kenyatta was imprisoned by the British on a charge of having led the terrorist movement.
Mr. Kenyatta sat in the car until after Webster and Tyndall were taken away in a police van. Then he issued a statement saying he was “completely unhurt,” and appealed to the people of Kenya to “remain calm and not rely on possible exaggerated reports.”
Duncan Sandys, Britain's Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, was waiting with the other conference delegates at Marlborough House when he heard of the assault.
He rushed to the hotel and took Mr. Kenyatta back with him to Marlborough House. The Kenyan scowled at photographers as he entered the conference room, where he complained to Sir Alec Douglas‐Home, the British Prime Minister.
Africans' Demand
A formal protest, complainingof inadequate security precautions, was lodged afterward with the Commonwealth Relations Office by Dr. J. Njuguna Karanja, Kenya's High Commissioner in London.
Sir Alec issued a statement saying he was “greatly dis‐ stressed” to learn that Mr. Kenyatta had been the victim of this “deplorable attack.”
Through the week‐long conMr. Kenyatta carried the burden of the argument by the seven African delegations on Southern Rhodesia. This was that Britain should use her authority to dismantle the colony's complicated electoral laws, which keep its white minority in political power.
Speaking for all Commonwealth countries in Africa, the Kenyan leader insisted that African nationalists detained in Southern Rhodesia be released at once.
He asked that Britain convene a representative conference to draw up a new constitution around the principle of “one man, one vote,” in opposition to the weighted‐voting system.
The other Commonwealth delegations gradually fell in behind the hardened African demand for a constitutional conference. Sir Alec maintained, however, that he did not want Britain to be hurried into any action that would prompt the Southern Rhodesian government to seize independence.
Mr. Kenyatta's assailant appeared in court on charges of having assaulted Mr. Kenyatta and a policeman and having used threating behavior with intent to provoke a breach of the peace.
Tyndall, who is 30 years old, was charged with having used insulting words that could have led to a breach of the peace. Both men were released on bail.
Webster said he had not assaulted the policeman. “I may have bumped his shoulder as I went by him,” he said.
Constable Edward Cooper declared, “I immediately grappled with the man and we both fell on Mr. Kenyatta.”
Both the policeman and Webster are big men. Together with the great size of Mr. Kenyatta, this suggested how easily the three of them, landing at once on the Prime Minister's Daimler, could have caused it so much damage.
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Prime Minister of Kenya Is Attacked by a British Fascist in London
