KENYA: The Meow-Meows

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The biggest prize of all was Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the black-bearded Kikuyu who runs the Kenya African Union (K.A.U.). A London-trained anthropologist still legally married to a blonde Sussex schoolmistress, Kenyatta (baptized Johnstone Kamau) spent the '30s in Moscow as a student guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya to spread the Red gospel. K.A.U. (membership: 100,000) ostensibly seeks home rule for Kenya, but is more likely a screen for Communist and anti-Christian propaganda among Kenya's 5,000,000 blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta's name has been substituted for that of Jesus Christ. Charged as the "leading spirit" of the Mau Mau movement, Kenyatta was packed off to a "not very comfortable" billet in the North Kenya desert—miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken biscuit. With him, under guard, went most of the staff of K.A.U. What Next? Governor Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working—though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant." Yet few Kenyans believe that force alone will stamp out the Mau Mau. In the British House of Commons, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told M.P.s that Mau Mau terrorism is "carefully planned, centrally directed, and its object is to destroy all authority . . ." Lyttelton added that he was leaving for Kenya this week, to see for himself.