Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inspecting the floral wonders, Ike admired the azaleas ("I love those") and an enormous (3 ft. across) African violet, fingered some rare orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
Alternative: War. To many of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers such a policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell...
...personal respect and because they understood in private what many would not publicly admit: that the only alternative to Blundell's policy is perpetual race war. For, small as it is, Blundell's growing movement for multiracial government is the only truly hopeful sign on the East African political horizon. Blundell himself is its most effective salesman, for he is no misty-eyed liberal but a man of force and character, whose feet are firmly planted in the rich Kenya earth...
...farm apprentice. He carved out a farm from the virgin bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers in the Kenya legislature...
...South African Correspondent Edward Hughes has been on a tour of troubled Kenya. His arrival in Nairobi coincided with a bold night foray into the capital by the native terrorists. This event, plus talks with officials who are planning a new reform government in Kenya, gave Hughes a few fast days' work and a sharp on-the-spot FOREIGN NEWS story, Mau Mau in the Cathedral...