Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing could be further from the truth . . . My Government has loyally supported the French government in its search for solutions to North African problems . . . The U.S. has consistently supported France when North African subjects have been discussed in the United Nations. The most recent instance was our strong support last fall of the position that Algeria is an internal French problem...
Nasser has scarcely bothered to hide it. Through Cairo's cafés, and with easy access to government offices, swarm the Middle East's biggest concentration of exiled terrorists and (depending on the point of view) troublemakers or patriots. In 1946 North African exiles set up the Committee for North African Liberation. The Egyptian government provided offices and funds for their support, had their representatives sit in on Arab League councils as advisers. Funds were raised, commandos recruited, trained and shipped off to the battlefronts...
...King Abdullah. He busies himself with the "Free Officers" Club of dissident Arab Legion officers in Cairo. Abd el Krim, the old Berber warrior who once kept 20,000 French troops on the run, is maintained as a decorative figurehead, was trotted out last week to urge all North African rebels to scorn France's "honeyed promises...
...only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming broadcasts in Swahili to Kenya (where it supported the Mau Mau), Somaliland and Uganda. Explained the Voice: "Egypt's geographical position requires her to work for the liberation of the African continent from all forms of imperialism." It helped get Glubb fired in Jordan, is now at work urging Arabs in Zanzibar to refuse a British offer of self-government. Nasser shrugs off all protests with the plea that the Voice is an independent organization, though it is housed in a government...
Today's side will be fairly experienced, however. Fullback will be South African Pat Latham, with countrymen Charles Levine at scrum half, and John Chalsty leading the forwards at number eight...