Going it alone
From Mr N.H. Mainptice Sir: In his article (With friends like us. . . 27 October) Andrew Roberts says that the end of empire furnished plenty of examples of local movements in Burma, Kenya and Cyprus that were at first encouraged by Britain to oppose independence, and were then left to the mercy of the nationalists as
soon as it was granted. I lived in Kenya from March 1950 until October 1964, a period which covered the struggle for, and the granting of, independence to that country. I should be interested to know what local movements in Kenya 'were at first encouraged by Britain to oppose independence'. As far as I am aware, the only opponents of independence in Kenya were the white settlers, who were certainly not 'encouraged' by Britain to oppose it.
H. H. Mainprice
London W2
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