Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central African Federation was created this year to unite the Rhodesias (and neighboring Nyasaland) into one big, economically sound nation, a kind of British barrier against South Africa's Boer oppression. The whites like the idea fine, but the blacks (who outnumber the whites 35 to 1) claim the federation is designed to keep them in their place. The founders also hope to preserve what they call "the British way." To define it, they staged the Cecil Rhodes Centennial Exhibition at Bulawayo. For weeks they have been importing such staples as Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother...
Still lumbering about Europe before getting on with his African trip, Ernest Hemingway described his latest literary output to a Paris interviewer in the Ritz bar: "Been working steady for three years. Finished three books since Old Man and the Sea. Going to let them lie for a year and then go back over them again. Don't have any titles for any of them yet. I never select a title until the book is finished...
White Witch Doctor (20th Century-Fox), based on the 1950 novel, pits Missionary Nurse Susan Hayward against African tarantulas, black-magic practitioners and warlike natives. Without any noticeable change from her recent performances as Jane Froman and Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Susan manages to remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...
...complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as governor, he pledged his administration to abandon South Carolina's public-school system if the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the schools. The U.N.'s General Assembly contains many Asian and African delegates explosively sensitive on the subject of race. Sample protests in telegrams to the President...
...canceling her Suez lease, Britain sprang a surprise: a 20-year rental agreement for a new war store just across Egypt's western border. London agreed to pay Libya, the Middle East's newest and poorest kingdom (created by the U.N. out of Mussolini's African empire), a dole of $2,800,000 annually for at least five years for economic development, plus another $7,700,000 annually to balance her budget, in return for the right to base British troops and planes in Libya for the next 20 years...