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0-19 (Rev. 1-11-60) By ROBERT C. RUARK AIROBI — Th ; intrusion of Thurgood. Marshall. the chieftétnsel for our Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, into the muddled mess between Great Britain and its colony, Kenya, seem; to me to be meddling of the highest order. What happens between Kenya and England at the current constitutional con- ferences in London is none of America’s official busi- ness, and it certainly is none of Dr. Marshall's business, ut, nevertheless, he is an fficial adviser to the Afri- Nn group. The situation is ridiculous. r. Marshall was out here 3 for only a couple of days. He is not an African. He is an American, and a mostly white one, at that. If he knows anything about Afri- ca or Africans he read it somewhere, A LOUD ‘BUT’ But here is this American Negro saying out loud that somehody else's government may be subject to revolt if his pressure group of irre- sponsibles doesn’t get what it wants in the way of corn- plete control of the country. I can understand the bell- wether, Tom Mboya, saying that in one of his usual threatening moods, but it sounds funny coming from a sophisticated American lawyer who wouldn't know a_f erdsman from a Whistling thorn, s---——- a wee Africa Isn't 7) Marshall's Business ae - = SASS OANA SAARI ARS “THE néy group in Africa know exactly what they want,” Dr. Marshall is quot- ed as saying in Londan. “They want independence now—tomerrow is too late.’ This “new group” Dr, Marshall mentions is com- posed of Marshall, Mboya, and a handful of other seif- seeking politicians, plus their eaplive voters in a few cities, They compose a fraction of the six million Kenyan popu- lation. A good two-thirds of this population never heard of Tom Mboya or “uhuru”—- frecdom—tlet alone Dr. Mar- Shall or the NAACP. I have just finished a ack breaking 2500-mile und trip hy jaep te Moga- Z Tolson Mohr Par ons, maity” ? Callahan —___ DeLoach _____ Malone McGuire Rosen Tamm Trotter ___ W.C, Sullivan —_ Tele. Room Ingram Gandy dist Th Somalia, up via Garissa in the northern frontier of Kenya, and I dare say I saw more actual Afri- cans on that one trip than the glin Mr, Mboya has seen since he became a politician instead of a sewerage in- yy. spector. >» I cdo not quarrel with the t, right of the African to try | to overthrow the vested in- a i ¢ teresis of the European, to “i { : quarrel and fight and kilt : LORD and steal among themselves, ‘ or io attempt to enslave a majority by a political mi- hority, It's their property. But it jolly well is not Dr. Thurgood Marshalt’s lan An American isn’t suppose to get mixed up in othe peoples’ revolutions as @ active participant, a The Washington Post and ae \. Ce ‘ iy Times Herald yw . . The Washington Dally News — we i ” The Evening Star ’ ral ‘ New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amerlean New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal Date ee a ee NOT REECRDEN UW? FEB Os tad —