Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The new Constitution, passed at a general election May 28, also provides that 1) Parliament will consist of one House, to be named the Folketing (People's Assembly), instead of two; 2) the Folketing will have the right to surrender part of its authority to international bodies, e.g., NATO...
Felice Benuzzi, the onetime Italian colonial official who tells the story, was interned by the British in 1941 and sent to Nanyuki, Kenya. Like any other P.W., he hated internment: the demoralizing idleness, the inability to be alone. But his camp was overshadowed by 17,000-ft. Mount Kenya, "a...
At week's end, acting with the militancy the local settlers have long demanded, the British Colonial Office 1) sealed off Central Kenya, including the three Kikuyu tribal reserves, from the rest of the colony; 2) created "special areas" in three sections of the Great Rift Valley, where anyone...
Even more up-to-date evidence comes from a colonial ironworks at Saugus, north of Boston. In its remains, diggers have found many well-preserved wooden structures that now lie at levels covered every day by the tide. Since the colonial ironworkers had no trouble with tidal flooding, the land...
Poets & Pronunciation. Entering the Civil Service after Cambridge, Eddie Marsh soon became known as "the perfect private secretary," first to Joseph Chamberlain, later, in 1905, to Winston Churchill, then Under Secretary in the Colonial Office. Eddie knew all Britain's greats and near-greats, dashed from dinner to dinner...