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...Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as "Zik." In the 1920s, Zik stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dominion so Peculiar | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...internal and international affairs alike, and clear, frank, and consistent loyalty to the principles of individual freedom and political liberty," Dallying said. He maintained that "two paramount facts" stand out in the Soviet post-war policy: (1) the reversal to its traditional, pre-war trends, which he termed anti-British; and (2) the unexpected difficulties in shifting Russian public opinion back to the old "schemes and concepts," after the policy of friendliness to the allied powers displayed during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Speakers Clash Over U.S. Russian Policies | 11/2/1946 | See Source »

...Make no mistake about it. The British imperialistic policy in the Near East alone, combined with Russian retaliation, would lead the United States straight to war. ... I am neither anti-British nor pro-British; neither anti-Russian nor pro-Russian. And just two days ago, when President Truman read these words he said that they represented the policy of his Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: What I Meant to Say . . . | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Those sponsored by the West and likely to be blackballed by Russia: Trans-Jordan (still tied to British apron strings), Eire (the anti-Communist slant even exceeds the anti-British) and Siam (still technically at war with France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N.: Henry or Dorothy? | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Last week the Soviet-inspired agitators shifted their tactics to Mosul in Iraq, head of Britain's Mediterranean oil pipeline. Their threats were backed by a vehement anti-British campaign in Teheran's Russophile newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Weather from the North | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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