Attrition and Compromise
Attrition and Compromise
This chapter argues that as 1949 drew to a close, operations to suppress Maasina Rule had been disappointing: a few men had agreed to labor on shorter term contracts, and if many Malaitans now saw the government as their worst enemy, it was said that they “respected” it for having shown that it could arrest thousands. Yet colonial officers on the ground knew that most Malaitans remained resolute. Tom Russell wrote that attitudes, especially in the north, had “hardened” into an “unbroken front of defiance.” Furthermore, census had been “a complete failure” due to refusals, and the enumerators were dismissed in April 1950.
Keywords: Maasina Rule, Malaitans, census, enumerators, Tom Russell
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