Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Bishop of Uganda was in London going over the whole distressing affair with the Archbishop of Canterbury. But Freddie's clash with the church was likely only to increase his popularity among all the best Baganda families, who are traditionally delighted if the Kabaka seduces one...
"Brown Colonial." To a wildly cheering Parliament, Noon denounced India as a "brown colonial country of the worst type," chided Britain and the U.S. for bowing to Indian pressure, broadly hinted that if Pakistan became more seriously threatened by India, it would "break all pacts in the world and go...
Britain's Idea. Federation, though supported by most of the islands' politicians, was pushed through by London's Colonial Office. Since the sugar-prosperous 18th century, when the West Indies were Britain's prize possessions, colonialism has gone out of style, and the islands have turned...
Planters and merchants sipping pink gin on hotel verandas tend to grouse about federation: "It's all very well for the Colonial Office to wash its hands of these islands, but they're not leaving any protection for people of substance." The voters, too, proved unenthusiastic; only about...
Scrapping the Clichés. The Bolshoi's new extravaganza, with its 400 onstage musicians and dancers, tells the story of Rome's slave uprising as outlined by Sallust and Plutarch, ending in the betrayal and death of the slaves' leader, the gladiator Spartacus (a favorite historical...