Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Algeria has been a bone of contention between European and Middle Eastern peoples ever since the Romans seized mastery of North Africa from the onetime Phoenician colony of Carthage. Vandals, Byzantines and Arabs have all contributed to the blood that is being shed in Algeria, and though it is frequently...
A Luo tribesman who spent a year at Ruskin College, Oxford, Mboya has become increasingly strident in his complaints against British attempts to bring about a gradual "multi-racial'' government in Kenya. Insisting on "parliamentary democracy for the African masses." he lashed out at the Colonial Office'...
"Arriba Nixon!" Only 15 years ago a Democratic Senate committee investigated Puerto Rico and pronounced its problems "unsolvable." Only twelve years ago Puerto Rico's retiring New Dealing Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell chose The Stricken Land as the title for his book about the island. Today Puerto Rico: CJ...
Sun & Slums. Puerto Rico nowadays is an exciting, sunny, scrubbed and cultured place to be. In terrain, it is a blue central mountain range skirted with rustling fields of sugar cane, crisscrossed with winding blacktop roads; the land is dotted with clean villages that still have the Spanish colonial look...
Censors & Cannibals. The zoo-page report noted that considerable physical progress had been made in Netherlands New Guinea, particularly in the field of public health. But it also painted an unattractive picture of arbitrary, old-fashioned colonial rule: "In the prison at Doom . . . Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight...