Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illegal radio strongly backs the program of eloquent, poetry-spouting Gwynfor Evans, 43, president of the Plaid Cymru (Free Wales) movement. Plaid Cymru gets about 10% of the total Welsh vote, but has never yet elected a Member of Parliament. Among its grievances is the fact that the British government allows free campaigning privileges on the government-owned BBC radio and TV only to parties putting up at least 50 candidates; and there are only 36 Welsh seats in the House of Commons to contest. Hammering away at England's "colonialist" attempts at "cultural genocide" for Wales, the nationalists...
...British officials, leary of creating any nationalist Welsh martyrs, have been desultory in trying to track down the illegal broadcasters. At week's end, the Freedom Station popped up in West Wales for the first time, and boasted two new transmitters. Said the man named Glyn: "This is just the beginning...
...Reds' noisy protestations of good faith, the Dalai Lama appeared before a sweltering crowd of 10,000 Buddhists and, standing beneath a golden umbrella, gave them his blessing. Then, with his retinue, the Dalai Lama boarded an air-conditioned railway coach to go to the former British hill station of Mussoorie, where he will take up his residence in exile and "rest and reflect on recent events" in his crushed and suffering homeland...
...Indians on the continent ever to hold high political office is Sir Amar Nath Maini, Uganda's Minister of Corporations and Regional Communications. Says he: "I know perfectly well that to take office under the British administration means to take the political kiss of death. But what's the alternative? Integration? This 'We-demand-no-special-rights, we-just-want-to-be-brown-Africans' attitude won't get us anywhere. The Syrians tried it in Ghana, and now they are being squeezed dry and flung out. We can come to terms with the African...
...government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...