Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Britain's Tory government, while busy fighting off the Mau Mau, appointed a Royal Commission to take a long, slow look at the East African problem. Last week, in a thoroughgoing, 482-page report, the Royal Commission made one overriding recommendation: the White Highlands must be opened up to African ownership, and African land ghettoes must be done away with. As for the Africans, the commission urged them to drop their old ways of tribal land ownership, and to switch to individual or family land ownership...
...Mohammed Ali Ag Attaher, a rich and powerful man, engaged me as a servant," a half-naked African told the French police in Bamako. "At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That was a long time ago-about 15 years. I should say. All of us made the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and there my master sent me to work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told...
...smoking René Mayer, 60, who was Premier of France for four months in 1953. An able banker-businessman who has a family connection with the wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure's coalition Cabinet...
...Prime Minister Johannes Strydom's bill to pack the Senate as he has already packed the judiciary (TIME, May 9). Object of the bill: to give Strydom's Boer Nationalists the two thirds majority they need in a joint ses sion of Parliament to override the South African constitution...
Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Beaver Valley, an Academy Award-winning feature, and African Adventure...