Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, to safeguard its hold on the remaining British Africa, Britain's Colonial Office took two big conciliatory steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories...
In the House of Commons last week, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton announced: "There are massive economic reasons for federation ... A single port serves all three. There is a need for Nyasaland labor in Northern and Southern Rhodesia . . . Coal from Wankie in Southern Rhodesia is required for the copper mines...
Even more important in British eyes is the need to build a strong bulwark of British power and civilization in Central Africa. Afrikaners are flocking into the Rhodesias at the rate of 2,000 a month; many of them are anti-British and determined to bring the Rhodesias into the...
The Grass Harp--Truman Capote's adaptation of his novel is a sensitive, poetic drama, but still needs a good deal of polishing. At the Colonial, 2:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Flight into Egypt. At the Colonial. A tense drama about Viennese expatriates struggling to reach America. Paul Lucas and Gusti Huber are excellent in their portrayals of the pride of a husband and the moral decay of a wife. 8:30 p.m.