Word: bechuanaland
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...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...
...hoped to persuade the United Nations to let him incorporate mandated South-West Africa into his country. Africa's blacks, who regard the South African Government as the harshest of many oppressors, opposed the merger. (One of their spokesmen, Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland, was prevented by the British from coming to New York.) Smuts's plan was also opposed by India, whose old case against South African discrimination was boiling again. Russia would use South Africa's record as propaganda among dependent peoples everywhere. Humanitarians who agree with Smuts when he talks of one world were...
Though transportation is difficult, a few copies get through to Moscow- and there are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two others in Bechuanaland. A copy of every issue travels the length of the Atlantic to a physician in the bleak Falklands, and another goes to a bishop whose diocese is the dank jungles of Belize. There is one TIME subscriber on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once-and one subscriber each in the Canary, Fanning and Society Islands...
...British airmen, training in Rhodesia, failed to return from a cross-country flight over the trackless wastes of Bechuanaland. Last week, in the thatched courthouse at Francistown, three ocher-skinned Bushmen named Twaitwai, Tammai and Kiree told what happened to the flyers...
...plane to English-reading people in some 70 free countries; there is one reader on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once; and one each in the Canary, Falkland, Fanning and Society Islands. There are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two in Bechuanaland, three in the Soviet Union...