Word: british
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperity. In Britain, where voters had just emphatically endorsed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's claim that they never had been so well off, the government this week planned to improve their lot still further by abandoning, for all practical purposes, the $280 ceiling on the amount of sterling British tourists are allowed to carry abroad. On the Continent the boom was so solid that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from 1970 to 1965 the date when goods, men and money will move with complete freedom through...
...Europe's response is largely defensive. The British protest that they are already pulling their weight helping Asian and African members of the Commonwealth. Paris points to last year's $100 million to the French Community's African members. But, bit by bit, Washington's new approach is beginning to have its effect. Under U.S. pressure, the European countries and Japan have agreed to join with the U.S. in setting up the new $1 billion International Development Association (TIME, Oct. 12). And last week, after asking his countrymen "whether we have the right to enjoy...
...farm yet?" In Kenya last week, this was the standard greeting whenever white settlers met. Behind it lay the bitterest blow that Kenya's settlers have yet suffered: a Kenya government proposal to open up to Africans and Asians the immensely fertile 12,700 sq. mi. of the British colony's "White Highlands...
...reason for the rare unanimity was general awareness that Antarctic territorial claims have become hopelessly muddled: three out of the four active Soviet IGY bases are in Australian-claimed territory, and the peninsula claimed by the British under the name Graham Land is O'Higgins Land to the Chileans, and San Martin Land to the Argentines. More important yet was the fact that for once the U.S. and Russia (neither of which recognizes any Antarctic territorial claims) were in thorough agreement; genially, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov echoed Secretary of State Herter's recommendation that "Antarctica should...
...weapons he wants, Castro gives top priority to the Hawker Hunter, a British-built jet. Castro wants to trade in 17 propeller-driven Sea Furies on 17 Hawker Hunters from the British. The U.S. is opposed to any Caribbean arms race, but the British say they are still "actively considering" the Castro offer...