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...Briton in khaki shorts stood nearby in a thatched mud hut that served as a polling station. The Shilluk voters hesitated, fingering the red-painted beads of flesh that stand out on their foreheads, peering at a row of empty gasoline cans-the ballot boxes. Asked a Shilluk: "Into which can do we drop the magic paper?" Said the white man: "You must choose...
...Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want, so long as he is black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five...
...This great frame-up against such conventional building materials as wood and concrete is the brainchild of Demetrius Comino, a 50-year-old Greek-Australian turned Briton. Comino himself has capitalized mightily on both ingenuity and opportunity since he went to England in 1920 to study engineering. He got into the printing business, naming his company Krisson, Ltd., after the ancient Greek word for better. He soon was making it live up to the claim. While a partner ran the plant, Comino spent his time making efficiency studies and asking so many questions that employees nicknamed...
...Communism as a highly mobile enemy that can strike anywhere without fear of being contained by localized balance. An American trying to estimate the intentions or reactions of the Soviet state will tend to draw his information from the theory of Marxism and the actual record of Communism. A Briton will tend to emphasize the history of Czarist Russia and to look upon Communist imperialism as a projection of the ancient Russian pressure against Europe...
Such a program would be possible in the United States only if material reward were substituted for the sense of moral satisfaction the Briton gets from service to the Crown. British scientists leave the ivory tower because they feel a personal obligation. But in the country, too few top scientists are willing to exchange faculty salaries and fat industrial consultation fees for a chance to buck Washington's frustrating bureaucracy. More money spent to lure top-notch civilians into scientific administration would mean fewer costly errors and a much-strengthened system of national defense...