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...city of Salisbury to honor Britain's Marquis of Salisbury. He found himself shunted to a segregated seat, along with other non-whites while the rest of the diplomatic corps were allotted seats in the council chamber. When the Indian assistant commissioner, the wealthy, Oxford-educated Rajah of Alirajpur, had to visit the Nyasaland capital of Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were 40 miles from town. The rajah has his hair cut by his pretty wife because, he says bitterly, "it has been made painfully clear to me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Teapot Tempest | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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