Word: afters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when the old bitterness subsided after World War I, France's traditional anticlericalism-a strain that runs from Voltaire to Sartre-remained just below the surface. In 1945, when De Gaulle set up his postwar government, he, though himself a devout Catholic communicant, curtly withdrew the wartime subsidies...
A Queen must do her job without a murmur, and Britain's Elizabeth did it stoutly when South Africa's new Governor General, Charles R. Swart, came to pay his first call. After the usual formal audience, she gave a lunch in Swart's honor at Buckingham...
That was the year that the then Lord of Lundy, Martin Coles Harman, who had bought the island for $80,000, was ignominiously charged by Britain with violating the Coinage Act. In 1929 he had begun issuing his own stamps, his own puffin and half-puffin coins, and putting his...
Hero of Tanganyika's advance, black and white agree, is 38-year-old Julius Nyerere, a cheerful, toothbrush-mustached former schoolteacher whose fight for independence has made him Tanganyika's-and East Africa's-foremost African leader. "Uhuru!" (Freedom), screamed 5,000 of his supporters as they...
Stunned by the tactics of the Congo leaders, De Schrijver told Parliament in Brussels that independence might be possible in 1960, after all. giving in to Kasavubu's demands for direct national elections early in the year. Hours after De Schrijver made his new offer, the 29-year-old...