Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Reasonable & Generous." Undisturbed, British authorities on Cyprus announced that Sir John's offer would stand. Blithely they predicted that all E.O.K.A. members except "a few fanatics" would surrender. And to justify its stubborn refusal to deal with Makarios, the Colonial Office announced that recently captured E.O.K.A. documents proved "beyond...
In the summer of 1925 a young Englishman named Charles Dalrymple Belgrave found himself in a quandary as old as the state of matrimony. Home on leave from a colonial service job in Tanganyika, Belgrave had become smitten with the Mayfair-bred daughter of a prosperous knight, and knew he...
* In the London Daily Express, advocating colored colonial Members of Parliament, Press Lord Beaverbrook took Ellington as a fine example of his race, described him as "a genius of Negro music. He sat by the side of his host, modest, dignified, delighting all the company with his gay mind and...
For this posthumous novel, Tolbecken, he had to do no grubbing in libraries. Heroes do not dash, swords do not flash. But his old fans may decide that Author Shellabarger was writing something closer to his heart, if not to his imagination. The real hero of the book is an...
Grogs's manners improved not a jot in the years that followed, and his firm voice never lost its strength. An ardent believer in the future of Kenya, he became one of the colony's richest men, but he never ceased to flay those with whom he disagreed...