Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land. He had already packed South Africa's High Court bench, by adding five new judges favorable to the government; now he pressed through Parliament a bill endorsing his court-packing decree, and ensuring that a quorum of the new court would be able to override the South African constitution...
...cold war the appearance of sweet reasonableness sometimes can be as powerful a weapon as a supply of atom bombs. Last week, at the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped a psychological blockbuster. After purring about peace and understanding all week long, Chou announced that the Chinese Communists were willing to confer with the U.S. on the question of "relaxing tension" in the Formosa area (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Lordly, India's Jawaharlal Nehru surveyed the gathering of delegates sipping their tea. He drew delicately on his black bone cigarette holder, waited for lesser delegates to approach and pay their respects. Nehru had the air of a man in undisputed command of the Asian-African Conference of 29 countries, and with his plans all laid. Red China's Chou En-lai was to be introduced to international society under his chaperonage, and shown to be a harmless fellow. Controversy was to be avoided, debate held to a minimum, only agreement sought. And what could they agree...
Tunisia, poorest of France's three North African territories, is a land where 250,000 Europeans seek to preserve their privileged status in a land of 3,000,000 Arabs. By last week the points at issue between the two sides had narrowed down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure...
...autonomy as France was ready to go at present. Many Tunisians were jubilant, though some preferred to wait and see. Premier Faure well knew that there were some road mines ahead, since details remain to be settled by the two governments, and the French National Assembly-where the North African colons are powerful-may make trouble. Nevertheless Faure was triumphant. "Some people," he said, "have reproved me for being an immobiliste. What kind of immobilisme is this...