- Title: Nyasaland. Bandas Peace & Calm Conference.
- Date: 21st January 1961
- Summary: The picture show, (only very approximately) Banda speaking to his delegates in small groups, each representing an area. He was informed in each case what the opposition was, and then remarked in each case that the opposition could be taken care of......intimidation has been extremely serious in Nyasaland, and the changes of a fair election are extremely remote. Ban
- Embargoed: 5th February 1961 12:00
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- Location: Blantyre, Nyasaland
- Country: Malawi
- Reuters ID: LVA8XQGHOEO7V3TKOQHD3JPVRI9X
- Story Text: With the Nyasaland elections rapidly approaching, Banda, leader of the Malawi Congress Party is doing his utmost to preserve peace & Calm in the Country, so that he will achieve a run away victory over his opponents, whatever there might be after he has, by intimidation and other methods, stifled whatever opposition he can. At Soche Township near Blantyre this week-end he held a conference, so he calls it, although he spoke for the whole time, at which there were members of the Malawi Party, who will be candidates for the forthcoming elections.... To all and everyone of them he said that he could soon depose chiefs who opposed him, and similar threats. This was said in every case when he spoke to small groups, who were marched before him, after he had finished speaking, when everybody congregated outside to meet him.
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