Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benelux's international trade is now the biggest on the Continent, though its population (20 million) is smaller than France. Italy or West Germany. Yet there is friction. Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland...
Outside the courtroom, in the hot Kenya sun, bearded, burly Kenyatta and his five followers were taken into custody once more. In South Nyeri, Mau Mau terrorists had just killed 13 loyal Kikuyu. In London, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton told Laborite critics in the House of Commons that, in...
Eden and Salisbury, the "Foreign Office Twins," were called back to office in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition. Salisbury has been Paymaster General, Dominions Secretary, Colonial Secretary,
But '76 was not this rebellious individualism alone. Equally present was a reverent conservatism, also intensified by the conditions of colonial life. The challenge and menace of the wilderness livened the idea of Divine Providence. Old rights, old truths became more precious in a new land. The rebellious colonists...
Tied Hands & Feet. He took a trip around the world, telling anyone who would listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no...