Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spilled Beer. The Windhoek riot was the sixth major one to erupt in Union territory this year, and like all the others, it was the direct result of the whites' measures to keep the blacks in their place. A few miles outside Windhoek, the government is completing a $5...
The editorial was intended not only to shock the Belgians but to keep African voters away from the polls, since in rural elections so far, voters have been giving heavy support to a large moderate party which Kasavubu contemptuously considers a stooge for the Belgians.
Landing at Stanleyville in the eastern Congo, he was greeted by mobs of black-shirted Africans shouting demands for independence. The King was jostled but kept smiling as the police used tear gas to control the crowd. That night, he broadcast an appeal to the nation: "I am trying, above...
South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates. Other such territories are either free or have been placed under U.N. trusteeship; but the...
Karam Singh's marathon interrogation began at 4 in the morning. He was asked to narrate the entire incident, but when he came to the point where the Chinese ambushers opened fire, the senior officer present "became wild and shouted back that it was incorrect, and that I must...