Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks in swimming pools, theaters and schools, preferring to live under some monstrously multicolored rag instead of the Union Jack, preferring to point to speculative historical "records" of some primitive people as a record of antecedents instead of to England's glory and the brilliance of English-African settlements...
...maintained that U.N. influence in the Vietnam war had to be exerted in directly through African and other neutral nations because North and South Vietnam and Communist China are not members...
Even if Smith does fall, Rhodesia's problems will not disappear. Its economy would then have to be resuscitated and its political system rebuilt, hopefully on the basis of a stable African majority government which could forestall the mass flight of whites with their skills and capital. But such a desirable outcome is far easier to prescribe than to achieve. The prejudices and fear of both whites and blacks, already great, will undoubtedly be fanned by Smith's rebellion. Southern Africa, so long forgotten in happy (for its whites) tranquility, has begun a time of upheaval...
...moral outrage at the holocaust in Southeast Asia. Surely the SDS is not merely attempting to counter-act the imputation of cowardice and draft-dodging by championing a war in another part of the world. What a cruel perversion of liberal principles it would be to promote majority African rule by means of the physical elimination of a reactionary white minority. The war in Vietnam is not wrong simply because American policy operates against the probable wishes of the majority of the Vietnamese people; it is pernicious because war itself is an immoral and obsolete method of solving international conflicts...
...present government in Rhodesia was legally elected under an undemocratic constitution. There is no legally constituted African government to be upheld in its place at this time. It is not the government that is illegal but its rebellion. The defiance of the British prohibition of a unilateral declaration of independence must not be met with indifference or resignation. Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned the Rhodesian leaders that their challenge would not go unanswered. A war in which British soldiers would be called up to kill their Rhodesian "cousins" would not be universally applauded in England. Nevertheless, Wilson has not ruled...