As he took off from his capital city of Salisbury in his old Royal Rhodesia Air Force Dakota, burly Sir Roy Walensky, 51, onetime boxing champion and locomotive engineer and now Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, seemed every inch the bwana of good will. He was bound on a 2,500-mile mission to carry the message of federation to the most remote tribes of Northern Rhodesia.
For his stop at the jungle village of Mongu, capital of the protectorate of Barotseland, he had loaded his plane with special offerings. In response to an SOS from Barotseland's 354 whites, he...
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