Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think the butler did it?" one faculty member was quoted as saying after hearing the first installment of Snow's narrative about a conflict between two English scientists over the development of radar...
...whites currently rule 4,000,000 blacks) until an African conference is held this summer. In reply, Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Winston Field repeated his refusal to attend any such conference until he receives in writing from Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler a promise that Southern Rhodesia gets its independence concurrently with either of the other two states...
...Butler's answer last week was that the conference settling the details of the dissolution of the federation must be held first, which makes the situation-like so many in Africa-appear insoluble. Fleeing a police rap, Southern Rhodesia's Black Nationalist Joshua Nkomo showed up in Tanganyika to declare his determination to fight the whole idea of Southern Rhodesia independence under white rule. Viewing the deadlock, Britain's Spectator commented: "What now exists in South ern Rhodesia is a colonial situation in reverse," that is, the Africans themselves earnestly hope Britain will retain what power...
Power Seekers. This apparently was enough for Rab Butler. He called in Welensky and Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Winston Field, a lean, enigmatic farmer who is less interested in the fate of the federation than in seeing to it that Southern Rhodesia's 221,000 whites retain political control of the state's 3,00,000 blacks. Butler announced Britain's decision: no territory would be kept in the federation against its will...
Furious at this "act of betrayal," Welensky stalked angrily from Butler's office and promptly canceled a luncheon engagement with Prime Minister Macmillan, a snub without precedent in British Commonwealth annals. At a news conference, he stormed that "these decisions have been taken by Her Majesty's Government under threat from men who seek power. The people of Central Africa, black and white alike, are being betrayed to these men!" Southern Rhodesia's Field took the news in stride. Now that the federation was virtually dissolved, Field wanted a British guarantee of independence for Southern Rhodesia...