Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dislike in New Delhi. Instead of lamenting the end of his 16-year career as a Russian expert, Henderson soon became an authority on the Arab world. He returned to Washington in 1945 to head the office of Near Eastern and African Affairs. When the British Cabinet decided to pull out of Greece, Henderson went to work immediately with his staff and, in a round-the-clock weekend, drafted a plan of aid to Greece and Turkey which emerged as the Truman Doctrine...
...Mendès. He began that afternoon with hope. He spoke of a Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
...offended him. "Any attempt to impose the will of one nation upon another must endanger peace," Nehru pointedly remarked one evening at dinner. "I earnestly hope the people of China will cooperate." And when Chou suggested that Red China should attend Nehru's projected conference of Asian and African neutrals, Nehru silkily referred Chou to the sponsoring "Colombo Powers," for "it is not I who will be sending out invitations...
...rebellion in Kenya was two years old last week. In that bloody stretch of time the Mau Mau have killed or wounded 2,000 loyal Kikuyu natives, 900 African or European soldiers and 27 innocent European civilians. The expensive war against them (present cost: $2,800,000 a month) has resulted in the slaying of 6,741 Mau Mau and the capture...
...Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity of the subject almost exceeds that of the painter...