Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beside the fairy-tale finery of distinguished delegates crowding into London's 132-year-old Lancaster House, the pale Colonial Office functionaries in their sack coats and striped trousers looked dignified but inconspicuous. Their appearance reflected their role. They were lost among the multihued robes, top-heavy turbans and...
Up from Loneliness. For austere, scholarly Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced 'n go din d'zee-em), President and Premier of the Southeast Asian republic of South Viet Nam, Ike's invitation to make an official state visit was a triumph almost as great as Viet Nam'...
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are...
Four Ways. Of all the European nations that gathered in Berlin in 1884 to divvy up the then still largely unknown and unexplored heart of Africa, the four principal powers now remaining have each pursued a different, and often faltering, path to the inevitable future. Pragmatic Britain, whose colonies range...
"Patience," says seasoned Colonial Hand Lord Malvern, former Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, "is essential; gradualness is absolutely necessary." But in newly awakened Middle Africa, there is little desire for patience. Of the many lessons the African has learned from his white masters, some.good, some bad, one at...