Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonial Police State. Sultan Ben Youssef's crime had been to lend his royal support to the nationalist movement. His mortal enemy was cunning old El Glaoui, the Pasha of Marrakech and leader of Morocco's 3,000,000 Berbers, a mountain people who hate the Arabs. The...
Pridi the Nationalist. Thailand (Siam) has little in common with Indo-China; it has been independent since the late 18th century (except for the Japanese occupation in World War II), and is therefore free from Indo-China's colonial handicap.
¶Out as Colonial Secretary stepped Oliver Lyttelton, who has labored long and with some success in coping with Mau Maus in Kenya and Communists in Malaya, and has been yearning to return to big business. His successor: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 49, a brilliant Oxonian who married into the wealthy...
With Suez given up as a permanent base, the British-governed isle of Cyprus assumed greater importance. Last week the Churchill government announced a new constitution as a first step toward mollifying the restive Cypriots who have been demanding union with Greece. It was, said Minister of State for Colonial...
When the Chinese mainland fell to the Communists in 1949, the British crown colony of Hong Kong overnight became the biggest news center in the Far East. To British colonial officials, the influx of newsmen was a nuisance. They gave out as little information as possible about any untoward "incidents...