MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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Malawi
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University College London
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, in 1936, receiving his MA subsequently in 1939. His essay 'The Last Years of the Court of Star Chamber, 1630-41', won him the Alexander Prize of the
Royal Historical Society
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Second World War
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and was sent to
Singapore
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Tarsao
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, collecting and disseminating information from the outside world, from local newspapers and hidden radios, in order to boost the morale of his fellow prisoners. In February 1945 he was interrogated by the '' Kempeitai'' (Japanese Military Police) and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. He arrived at Singapore’s Outram Road Jail, known as “The Belsen of the East”, in July 1945 but was released after only a month. For his work during this time in Burma and Singapore he was awarded the MBE in 1946.
Shortly after the end of the war he left England for Nyasaland (now
Malawi
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) in Central Africa where he served as an assistant district commissioner in the northern area of
Karonga
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His ...
Harare
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) in
Southern Rhodesia
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(now
Zimbabwe
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) in 1953, serving in the Treasury of the
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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which was formed in that year.
He returned to Nyasaland in 1957 as Financial Secretary. In 1960 he was appointed CMG. As the senior official responsible for finance, he expected to hand over the reins on independence to
Dunduzu Chisiza
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, a prominent young member of the group, headed by Hastings Kamuzu Banda, which was to govern after Nyasaland achieved independence. Chisiza, however, was killed in a car crash in September 1962, and so Phillips was asked by Banda to occupy the post of
Minister of Finance
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until another candidate could be schooled for this position. (In the event, his successor was
John Tembo
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Sources
*''From Obscurity to Bright Dawn: How Nyasaland Became Malawi — An Insider’s Account'', by Sir Henry Phillips. London: 1998. Radcliffe Press.
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