Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago the West felt welcome and secure in Libya, that huge 680,000-square-mile expanse of African desert between Tunisia and Egypt. Frail old King Idris was a firm friend of the West. So was young (35), balding Prime Minister Mustafa ben Halim. In exchange for a $10.5 million annual subsidy, Libya allowed the British to maintain a major air base near Tobruk, and when Premier Nasser forced the British out of the Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance...
Mister Johnson (adapted from Joyce Gary's novel by Norman Rosten) is a young West African Negro who has become a British government clerk and yearns to be a full-fledged, "civilized," Christian Briton. But, even in his bumbling and his guile, the sunny-natured, light-fingered, childlike clerk is miles from his models. An orphan of two cultures, he carries a furled umbrella while walking barefoot, with his patent leather pumps hanging about his neck...
COPPER PRICES are floating down from their ceiling. After long strikes last year which cut supplies by 150,000 tons and pushed prices up some 60% to a peak 55? a lb. for U.S. custom-smelted copper, U.S., Chilean and African mines are finally starting to catch up. Result: prices in the world (i.e., London) market last week tumbled nearly...
...North African nationalists were outraged by the Dillon speech, which Algerian Leader Messali Hadj called "contrary to the principles of American democracy." Frenchmen, however, cheered it. Said French Premier Guy Mollet: "President Eisenhower and Mr. Dillon are great friends of France. I want to express my thanks and those of my country to both of them...
Watching its North African territories slip away. France at long last read its lesson. Demanding powers to establish local government and to give natives equal voting rights in its other colonies in "Black Africa," the Mollet government declared: "We must not permit ourselves to be outstripped and dominated by events, to yield subsequently to demands when they express themselves in violent terms." By an amazing 477 to 99, the Assembly gave the government the powers it had requested. For good measure, the government itself belatedly approved reforms for Algeria. Sample: 50-50 shares for Algerian sharecroppers (to whom heretofore landlords...