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sentiments set off a storm of protest. Cohen's action had backfired, and he could find no one among the
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white supremacy posed a greater menace than the perpetuation of the less inflexible, paternalistic white ascendancy system of
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in 1950. The Jewish Cohen, traumatised by the
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on 1 October 1961. Cohen had argued against offering independence to the territory, and pro-independence
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jurisdiction. On 30 November Cohen deposed the Kabaka and ordered his exile to London. His forced departure made the Kabaka an instant martyr in the eyes of the
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