Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Macmillan had dropped one pet concept after another. In the beginning the British press, taking its cue from the Macmillan-Khrushchev communiqué which mentioned a possible limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military, and finally to a simple "freeze" that would preserve the military status...
...bills accurately mirrored the feelings of many settlers, but strongly repelled others. The Salisbury Bar Council in emergency meeting condemned ten encroachments on political liberty in one of the bills. The Federation's top clergymen, including the Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury, wrote a joint letter declaring: "We believe that no emergency or danger of emergency can justify injustice...
...pleasant-looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation...
...says Banda. "I have nothing against those Europeans who think of Africans as human beings. I'm against those who think they're the chosen ones of God and that Africans are their 'boys.' " Banda's immediate goal: to get Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation...
...until the very end of the turgid sessions did Comrade Gomulka uncork his surprise: he had edged 14 of his most bitter enemies off the important 75-member Central Committee. These were the hardcore, Moscow-First group who had tried to keep Gomulka out of office in the first place, and determinedly opposed the bloodless revolution that brought Poles a measure of freedom in 1956. Gomulka also beefed up the party's nine-man Politburo by adding two of his friends to its ranks...