The setting came right out of the great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs in kaffiyehs, Indians in business suits, suntanned white settlers, a handful of Africans. From the street outside sounded the martial music of a passing detachment of Coldstream Guards.
Colonial Road. But if the setting was imperial, the purpose of last week's meeting was not. Britain's new Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, 46, was facing up to his first big challenge,...
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