Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendship." But this time Nehru refused to be mollified. Most courteous, said he of the note, but any further Chinese aggression against India "will certainly be fully resisted." Added the Hindustan Times: "If another Bandung Conference were held today, it would be a conference of Asian and African countries to consider common action against Han [Chinese] expansionism...
This time Nkrumah added something entirely new to his already colorful manual on how to succeed in African politics. As United Party leaders got set for the election by taking the precaution of recruiting some young goons of their own, Nkrumah sent out secret orders for the Builders' Brigade to lie low. The result was a moral disaster for the U.P.: by the time election day came round last week, Ghana's uncorrupted, British-trained police had been forced to arrest 82 United Party toughs, while only seven of the C.P.P.'s boys got into trouble...
...Vienna, and, for the average impressionable delegate, an orgy of cultural events dominated by the Russians (e.g. the Leningrad Ballet) and the Communist Chinese (e.g. the Peking Circus). Dozens of such events were running each day in all available auditoriums in Vienna, and in the evenings Eastern and African folk performers appeared in neighborhood parks across Vienna...
...that even a big salvage firm had given up as too dangerous-and neither Deir nor Little was a professional salvage man. Both were from Holland, Va. and had been machinists with a heavy construction outfit. They heard of the wreck of the African Queen, decided to go after her, quit their jobs, brought in two more partners who put up money, and hired four helpers, who joined them later on the African Queen. Due mostly to the tremendous persistence and ingenuity of Lloyd Deir, they brought the African Queen to port-but only after six dramatic months of adventure...
Avance and Diario had committed the error of strong but well-reasoned arguments against a new Castro decree boosting import duties to 100% in some cases; the effect, noted the papers, may well be to reduce Cuba to the levels of undeveloped Asian and African nations...