Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The whites' political leader, Michael Blundell, returned from London conferences with Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, talking less moderately than he once had. Said he: "We must now face the fact that the Kikuyu tribe [1,250,000] is in a state of rebellion. There should be summary justice." Day...
Sorokin, defending the non-violence movement, said in an interview, "Non-violent resistance is in my opinion the only form of resistance which any morally responsible person can use against the forces he must fight." He continued, "I not only condemn the policies of Malan South Africa and of all...
Malaya-Type War. With modern weapons, Kimathi's guerrillas could transform what began eight months ago as a minor "colonial incident" into a bloody colonial war. The British know it. This week they began airlifting two battalions of regulars from Britain to fight the Mau Mau. This would bring...
After some elder has hidden the effigy, village women and children brandishing sticks and kitchen knives search the villages, crying, "Qui bo' li?" (where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into...
On his 1,200-acre farm at Subukia, near Nakuru, Yorkshire-born Michael Blundell, the burly, boyish-faced political leader of the white settlers, admitted there was something in the farmers' case. "I try to force the government to take bigger steps, provide more armed protection for isolated farms...