Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The commission appointed by the Colonial Office to suggest a capital for the new British Caribbean Federation announced its decision last week. The winner: Barbados, with Jamaica and Trinidad as second and third alternates.
Viscount Chandos (who used to be better known as Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton) wrote last week that although Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. must work together, there is a "need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A...
He expressed unhappiness that while Britain, France, and Holland had been giving independence to 600 million people in former colonial possessions, fierce anti-colonial feelings had been building up in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. He warned against steps that might be taken in these countries as imperialism, and...
The Waltz of the Toreadors is an import from London, not Madrid. (The Spanish know better.) There is a lot of frank talk about sex, at the Colonial.
Gaitskell concluded his lecture by discussing possibilities for closer European unity, saying that Britain should favor some closer ties with the Continent so long as they do not interfere with her commitments to the Commonwealth, her more liberal colonial policy, and her "special relationship with the United States."