Book Review: Buganda and Beitish Overrule, 1900–1955
| Author | Gwendolen M. Carter |
| Date | 01 June 1961 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206101600219 |
| Published date | 01 June 1961 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIWS
199
because
the
Greek
government
refused
to jeopardize
its
good
relations
with
Britain
and
Turkey
any
further
for
the
sake
of
Enosis, and because
Turkey
insisted
that
the
right
of
the
Greek
population
of
Cyprus
to
choose
union
with
Greece
implied
a
similar
right
of
the
Turkish
minority
to
unite
with
Turkey.
The doctrine
of
"self-determination"
which
Mak-
arios had
been
urging
upon
the
United
Nations
proved
to
be
a
boomer-
ang
and
was
leading
to
partition, the
last
thing
he
wanted.
Even
after
the
establishment
of
the
Republic
was agreed
upon,
Markarios
could
say:
"The glorious
liberation
struggle,
whose
fifth
anniversary
we
cele-
brate
today
[April
1,
1960),
has
secured
for
us
advanced
bastions
and
impregnable
strongholds
for
our
independence.
From
these
bastions
we
will
continue
the
struggle
to
complete
the
victory."
He
has
really
renounced
Enosis,
the
equivocation
continues,
and
the future
of
Cyprus
is by
no
means
without
its
problems.
The
author
traces
these
two
themes,
Makarios'
double
r6le
as
Arch-
bishop
and
Ethnarch, and
the
deviousness of
his methods,
in
a
series
of
chapters:
Makarios
and
the
Church,
EOKA,
the
Communists,
the
Turks, the
Greek
Government,
the
United
Nations,
NATO,
the
British
Government,
the Labour
Party,
the
Constitution,
the
People,
and the
Future.
There
is
a
certain
amount
of
deliberate
repetition in
this
plan
but
it
serves
to
bring out
clearly
the
key
position
of
Makarios
in
all
as-
pects
of
the
struggle.
Those
interested
in
understanding
the
complexi-
ties
of
the
Cyprus
situation
will
find this
a
most revealing
study.
The
cartoons
reprinted
from
British,
Greek,
Turkish,
and Cypriot
news-
papers
provide
effective
and
sometimes
grimly sardonic
comment
on
the
text.
Trinity
College,
Toronto
MARY
E.
WHnm
BUGANDA
AN
BRrrisS
OvERmuLE,
1900-1955.
Two
Studies.
By
D.
Anthony
Low
and
R.
Cranford
Pratt.
1960.
(New York:
Toronto:
Ox-
ford
University
Press.
xi,
373pp.
$6.25).
No
place
in
Africa
demonstrates
better
than
does
Uganda
the
fact
that
it
is
not
only
white
resident
minorities
that
attempt
to
maintain
their
privileged position
against
pressures
to
merge
themselves
into
larger
entities.
No
place
else
Is
there
such
an
obvious
stalemate
to
the
efforts
of
the
British
to
transfer
power
to
broadly
representative
institutions.
Within
Uganda,
Its
most
prosperous
and
advanced
unit,
the
Kingdom
of
Buganda,
is
resisting
the
constitutional changes
which
could
pave
the
way to
Ugandan
independence,
and
doing
so
because
its
traditional
leaders
fear
the
reduction, if
not
loss
of,
their
privileged
position
within
their
own
boundaries.
For
once
African
nationalism
has
proved
less
strong
than
the
influence
of
a
ruling
Clite.
Why
this
is
so
is
explained
with
unusual
clarity
and
a
wealth
of
detail
in
two
complementary studies
published
under
the
title
of
Buganda
and
British
Overrule.
The
first
of
these
studies, which
is
by
Dr.
Low,
Fellow
In
History
of
the
Australian
National
University, analyzes
the
making
and
implementation
of
the
Uganda
Agreement
of
1900
which
established
a
balance
of
power
between
previously
warring
Catholic,
Protestant
and
Moslem
groups
within
Buganda.
This
arrangement
was
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