Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unification that might be worked out in the framework of these fundamental requirements must follow a sequence of disarmament in Central Europe. Only when the Soviet Union is willing to agree to a relaxation of the Cold War in Europe can the German question be solved. To achieve any realistic result, therefore, the United States must work toward a disengagement gradual enough so that each side can take the immediate steps without feeling its security endangered. Limiting arms in Germany, setting a quota on ground forces and a prohibition on missile bases would prove fruitful as a first step...
...three British territories that make up the loosely knit Central African Federation, Southern Rhodesia comes closest to following the harsh segregationist ways of South Africa's apartheid. Negroes are barred from the Parliament, are excluded from most hotels, must use separate entrances to post offices and banks, are denied entrance to some shops, which serve them through hatches opening onto the sidewalk. By such measures. Southern Rhodesia's 211,000 whites have managed to keep a semblance of racial calm, but they have also alienated the blacks of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia from the whole idea of federation...
...extremism with extremism with any hope of success." But the fact was that Welensky's own policy of "partnership"-i.e., a policy of advancing the Negro, but so slowly that the whites will hardly notice -has satisfied no one. If the Dr. Bandas wanted an end to the Central African federation, so apparently did Southern Rhodesia's whites. In the last territorial election they gave a majority of their votes to the anti-Welensky Dominion Party, which wants to cut the territory loose from its predominantly black partners and turn it into a smaller version of the Union...
...Janeiro, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, 68, recently retired after twelve years as Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., consecrated his son, the Rev. Edmund Knox Sherrill, 33, seven years a priest, as bishop of the Episcopal Missionary District of Central Brazil...
...report finding is "impossible to give expression to the deep sense of gratitude which I feel to the University for the opportunity I have had to participate in a reorganization of Harvard College" under Dean Bundy's leadership. "I am happy that I am to continue in a less central position in these developments," he concluded, "where I hope I may continue to enjoy the friendship, patience, and help of my present colleagues and the staff of University Hall to whom I owe so much...