Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital...
In Lagos, Mboya's meeting drew union leaders from 29 countries. Nkrumah's affair was a flop, with officially accredited delegates only from Guinea, Morocco and the United Arab Republic. "I have no quarrel with Nkrumah," Mboya insisted last week, but it was no secret that he strongly...
"Nauseating," cried London's Daily Telegraph. "A deliberate gesture of contempt," roared Lord Beaverbrook's Express. Just as angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London...
The story of Hungary three years later is still that of puppet rulers holding power only by the presence of 60,000 Russian troops. The Soviet troops are not deployed as a field force against international danger, but scattered in "penny packets" outside each Hungarian town to guard against uprising...
Crowds enviously studied the windows of Moscow's new Mosodezhda men's wear store last week, eying the fancy suits, coats, smokingi and fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80...