Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, scenting danger to Suez, British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton flew to Nairobi to see for himself how seriously the Mau Mau terror has jeopardized Kenya's security. He stalked through the ruins of Lari village, where the Mau Mau massacred 300-odd sleeping Kikuyu (TIME, April 6...
"The Union [of South Africa] has failed. We have not been able to build a nation. Let us accept the divorce, end the dogfight." Thus, last week, spoke Heaton Nicholls, 77, grand old man of British South Africa. A lifelong champion of Empire who carried the white man's...
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt addressed them as "fellow immigrants," 'the Daughters of the American Revolution have been running, stumbling and crawling to recapture lost dignity. Their goal; pure "Americanism." In this field they have no peers, with the possible exception of the Colonial Dames who came off the boat a...
It is an area nearly twice the size of Texas, now divided into one crown colony (Southern Rhodesia) and two protectorates (Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland). The vast majority of its 6,000,000 inhabitants (so far as their wishes are known) do not want to sever their relationship with the...
The direction and acting are more restrained than the plot. Celia (Brief Encounter) Johnson makes the part of a dedicated probation officer warmly moving. As a retired Colonial-Office official who decides to take up probation work, Cecil Parker brings a jauntily sly humor to his role.