Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewest? What Prime Minister served the most consecutive years?- Within 24 hours after the announcement that British elections would be held Oct. 8. copies of TIME'S "General-Election Argument Settler," a handy reference wheel with the answers to these and 250 other questions about 31 elections and 23 Prime Ministers since the parliamentary-reform bill of 1832, were distributed to government officials, party headquarters, university political clubs, educators, libraries, and other groups throughout the British Commonwealth. TIME previously distributed its "Argument Settler" for the 1956 U.S. elections and the 1957 Canadian elections, hopes the 1959 British wheel will...
...Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing...
Time to Swallow. Most volatile issue in Ethiopia today, however, is not economics but relations with the neighboring Somalilands (TIME, Sept. 14). In the rise of a Pan-Somalia movement among the tribes of French, British and Italian Somaliland, the Ethiopians fancy they discern the bogeyman of British and Italian imperialism. This, plus Italian Somali-land's decision to demand a U.N.-supervised referendum in Somali grazing lands inside the borders of Ethiopia, constitute one of the chief sources of Haile Selassie's growing suspicion of the West. With an age-old fear of Moslem encirclement, the Ethiopians...
...over luncheon or at a cocktail party, Kenya's handsome, articulate Tom Mboya is one of Africa's most winning personalities. But in his campaign to force Kenya's whites to surrender their political control of the fertile British East African colony, Tom Mboya shows a steely contempt for moderatjon and half measures. His platform: complete electoral equality for Kenya's blacks and whites by 1960, common schools for all races and a ban on further white immigration to Kenya...
Into the halls of U.S. higher education last week marched an exotic vanguard: 81 African students, including 78 Kenyans -the largest group ever to arrive from the British colony that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...