Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always agile at getting two benefits from one move, the Russians are already exploiting their break with Israel in that vast strategic vacuum, the Middle East. They found eager hearers among the Arabs, who dislike Britain and France for past colonial behavior and mistrust the U.S. for its constant support...
For generations, the University of Mexico had been a typical European-style collection of colleges scattered among downtown colonial monuments: the law school occupied a former convent, the medical faculty the Spanish Inquisition's old headquarters, the art school a onetime leper hospital. In 1948, the university's...
The book has no theme and no plot. It is a loosely chronological log of a year's journey into a wasteland of waters, in, over, and around which nature has run wild. Here and there is a condemnation of the world's race for riches, occasional criticisms of Whitehall...
Some in flowing robes, others in college blazers, the chiefs offered to kneel and touch Her Majesty's heel, the highest honor a Nyasaland chief can pay. But they did not get to see her. Instead, an all-white conference, after first devising a web of constitutional safeguards to...
To calm the Negroes' fears, Her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, insisted that the federation plan make provision for 1) a six-man native-affairs board with the right to be consulted on all legislation affecting African interests; 2) Negro representation in the federal parliament. Sir Godfrey...