Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topic A in the House of Commons last week was still the colonial empire. Entrenched at the dispatch box, Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton faced and beat down a series of Labor attacks that were marked by their concern for the welfare of native peoples, by their antipathy toward Lyttelton and...
Many of them were of the opinion that the Kabaka had been meddling in politics to divert public attention from the previous frivolity of his personal life. Explaining the government's decision to the Lukiko, Governor Cohen, a close friend of Mutesa II and one of Britain's...
Under the agreement of 1900, signed by Britain and Mutesa's crocodile-worshiping father, the Kabaka is required to "conform . . . and cooperate loyally with Her Majesty's Government." But since last summer, the Baganda have been demanding 1) a definite date for Buganda independence. 2) the transfer of...
Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape...
In God's Name, Go. In the House of Commons, Laborite after Laborite leaped to his feet to denounce the Kabaka's deposition as a "classic blunder" and the person and policies of Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton as disastrous. M.P.s on both sides had been shocked by reports...