1.
GV PAN..CROWDS ON AIRPORT ROOF.
0.07

2.
SLV. SECTION OF CROWD WAVES.
0.10

3.
SV. KIWANUKA DOWN PLANE STEPS, GREETED, HANDED LETTER.
0.24

4.
LV. CROWD ON ROOF PAN TO KIWANUKA RECEIVING FURTHER GREETINGS.
0.30

5.
CU. KIWANUKA ACKNOWLEDGING WELCOME.
0.35

6.
SV. GROUP PAN UP TO BANNER.
0.41

7.
CU. BANNER "WELCOME OUR CHIEF MINISTER - THE TRUE LEADER AND BUILDER OF UGANDA".
0.45

8.
MV. KIWANUKA CARRIED FORWARD WITH EXCITED CROWD.
0.53

9.
CU. CARRIED SHOULDER HIGH.
1.00



Initials EHR/S/PB EHR/S/JF/MMcG



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Background: AN HISTORIC MOMENT IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF UGANDA... WHEN BENEDICTO KIWANUKA, MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO IN THE NEW UGANDA GOVERNMENT, FLEW INTO ENTEBBE AIRPORT FROM LONDON JULY 2 HE WAS HANDED A LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR OFFICIALLY NAMING HIM UGANDA'S FIRST CHIEF MINISTER. WITH THIS APPOINTMENT, THE POST OF CHIEF SECRETARY WILL BE ABOLISHED, AND THE PRESENT HOLDER OF THE POST - MR G.B. CARTLAND - WILL BECOME DEPUTY GOVERNOR.

THERE WERE SCENES OF YUMULTUOUS ENTHUSIASM AT THE AIRPORT, MR. KIWANUKA WAS CARRIED FROM THE AIRPORT AND DEPOSITED ON A POLICE TENDER TO MAKE A SPEECH. HE SAID THIS WAS THE FIRST STEP TO INDEPENDENCE - UGANDA WOULD "ALMOST CERTAINLY" BE INDEPENDENT BY 1962, AND A DATE WOULD PROBABLY BE SET AT THE LONDON CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE THIS SEPTEMBER.

MR. KIWANUKA IS LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. HIS APPOINTMENT WAS FORECAST EARLIER; AND HE HIMSELF SAID AFTER TALKS IN LONDON RECENTLY WITH THE BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY THAT AN ANNOUNCEMENT WOULD BE MADE ON HIS RETURN. HE NOW LEADS THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

A PROTECTORATE GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THE NEW APPOINTMENTS WOULD MAKE NO DIFFERENCE TO RELATIONS BETWEEN BUGANDA AND THE PROTECTORATE, WHICH WOULD REMAIN THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE GOVERNOR.