Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The British were delighted. "Only a fellow with a real understanding of statesmanship could have done it," said a Colonial Office man. All the same, Whitehall reserved the three vital ministries of Defense, Finance and Foreign Affairs for the white British members of the cabinet.
Great Hope. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of Cigarettes who turn to Moscow for answers to their perplexity. But in Africa, Communism is not yet a mobilized alternative, as it is in Malaya or Iran; there is still time. It is in the jubilant, blossoming Gold Coast, and in its...
*Nkrumah's explanation: he carried the card because it admitted him to Communist meetings, which he attended "to learn their technique." He denies that he was ever a party member, and the British believe him. "He's always used Communist technique," says the Colonial Office, "but he'...
French West Africa, ten times the size of California, fills the bulge of West Africa. Population: 16 million, including 62,000 "Europeans," and a colonial "elite," the product of the French policy of "assimilating" educated Africans into French culture. (French colonial officers may claim family allowances for their illegitimate half...
The bitterest objections to federation came from the leaders of 6,000,000 Rhodesian and Nyasaland Negroes. The Africans fear to lose the benevolent protection of the British Colonial Office, suspecting that the whites in an independent "Rhodesia" might follow the example of South Africa and turn down the screws...