Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITAIN, enmeshed in far-flung colonial police actions and still half broke, made plain by its answers that its 1953 contribution will fall about 40% below its Lisbon estimates for men, 50% for aircraft. Instead of reinforcing its army of the Rhine, the Tory government will present next week'...
In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth...
Song of Terror. British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, who toured Kenya last month, assured the House of Commons that "we will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East...
Urgent Warning. Hemmed in between black barbarism and white Blimpery, moderates both in Kenya and in Britain worried that repression alone might drive the docile majority of the Kikuyu tribe into the hands of Mau Mau fanatics. In the House of Commons, bluff Jim Griffiths, the former Labor government'...
Last week, after years of such debate, a new hope rose for some of the backward Indies. In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate. Next spring, delegates from the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands and the...