Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BRITISH SCHOOLING. Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dras Bandaranaike was a fellow student of Anthony Eden at Oxford; India's Nehru and the King of Buganda went to Cambridge. Pakistan's boss, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, was trained at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, as was India's Chief of Staff, General Thimmaya. Every fourth cadet on parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London...
...Cromwell's dictatorship in England (1649-53), after the execution of King Charles I, was therefore dubbed "the Commonwealth." The U.S. colonies liked the self-governing implications of the word, and several states (e.g., the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania) still bear the name. As early as 1852, British officials were employing commonwealth as a euphemistic name for empire. It has now grown to mean a collection of self-governing communities, united in friendship, but without any central government. Even Khrushchev has put a gingerly foot on the bandwagon by suggesting that his satellite states might grow into...
...Phoenix Park and to the job that he himself had declared to be "above politics." For 40 years he had dominated the Irish scene, and for 21 of those he had headed the government. Though born in Manhattan -a fact that was to help him escape a British firing squad-he grew...
...reverse themselves. The first reason was moral: the realization that to oust a legally installed government by mass defiance would set a bad precedent for Indian democracy. One of India's most respected leaders, former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari. So, declared that the methods Gandhi used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign was called off. well-disciplined Red mobs would launch similar...
...three weeks since he took over as Singapore's first Prime Minister after 140 years of British colonial rule, slim Lee Kuan Yew has not yet justified all the fears of what his leftish People's Action Party might do to capitalism. But as a determined anti-imperialist, Cantabrigian Lee went to work right away on what he thought were imperialism's decadent gifts to Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll...