The pamphlet put out by the tourist office called it "NyasalandDarkest Africa in Fairest Mood." But in this fair spot last week the mood could not have been darker. Each day the upland country of clear lakes, sun-splashed valleys and misty mountaintops saw fresh upheavals, and the violence echoed beyond its borders. Not since Britain in 1953 merged Nyasaland with the two Rhodesiasforming a Central African Federation larger than California, Texas and New York combinedhas there been such turmoil. And it seemed to be only beginning.
Ironically, Nyasaland, poorest of the federation's...
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