Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hambli's desertion was a bad break for the F.L.N., since it coincided with an increasing war weariness in rebel ranks. But it would take far more than the surrender of a few score rebels to end the revolt. "History," noted Britain's Manchester Guardian Weekly last week...
WE ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African...
The character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster...
Nyasaland. In the third and most primitive of the three federal states, the days were full of the sounds of new detention camps being built to hold African supporters of the volatile Dr. Hastings Banda (see box). Already 560 were being detained. Sir Roy has yet to reveal the evidence...
Died. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, 56, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller and Cyrus H. (the reaper) McCormick, World War II WAC sergeant who later bought a $900 blue-and-buff colonial uniform to wear in July 4 parades; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn.