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...Karonga a mob armed with stones and clubs swept onto the airfield, burned down a building, stormed a jail and released 13 prisoners. In rapid succession trouble flared in Livingstonia and at Mzim-ba. At first the Nyasa government minimized the outbreaks, but Federal Prime Minister Welensky did not. "We have adequate forces," said he, "and we will not hesitate to use them...
When the British began landing workmen from Pakistan and materials for the airfield on Gan, the Maldivian Parliament grumbled audibly about the arrival of progress. There was a flurry of demands for independence, charges that too many concessions had been made to the British, and loud outcries that the Maldivian way of life was in danger. Once again a government fell, and a new Prime Minister, Ibrahim Nasir, asked that work on Gan be halted. In reply, Britain's High Commissioner Alec Morley steamed from Ceylon to the Maldives aboard the cruiser Gambia, and that led to hysteric Maldivian...
...siege around Alhucemas was relieved, the airfield recaptured, the road to Tetuán reopened. On a visit to Tetuán last week, new Leftist Premier Abdallah Ibrahim borrowed a phrase from France's famed pacifier of Morocco. Marshal Lyautey: "The government had to show force to avoid using...
Author Shute, 59, who was an aeronautical engineer and military pilot, this time returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers...
Troops in full battle dress moved into Rangoon police and government buildings one night last week. They mounted 2-in. guns around the capital's airfield, stopped all cars in the city and on major roads and searched them for hidden firearms. Then Premier U Nu, the dexterous little Buddhist who has presided over Burma's turbulent fortunes for almost all of its ten years of independence, went on the air and announced that he was resigning and had invited General Ne Win, chief of the armed forces, to head a nonparty government which would dissolve Parliament...