Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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If any misgivings were felt, few were expressed. Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and his opposition member on the Labor bench, Nye Bevan, joined in mutual self-congratulation. The fact was that in deciding to accept Malta, everyone was all too conscious of unhappy events in another Mediterranean colony, Cyprus...
But for its first and only Premier, Communist Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana could now be far along the road to a stable economy and peaceful self-government. As far back as 1945, Britain earmarked $10 million for the country's long-term development. But in early 1954, when it...
Meeting in London with the colony's Governor Sir Patrick Muir Renison, Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan...
In 1954 Greece began demanding an immediate plebiscite on enosis, offered pledges that British bases would be allowed to remain, but found its case blocked in the U.N. Assembly by Britain. In July 1954, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs Henry Hopkinson blurted that Cyprus would "never" be allowed full...
"That just shows that Americans don't know their history," Handlin said. He indicated that Boston, with sections almost as they were in colonial days, should be rated first instead of Washington, a much newer city. Few of the old buildings in New York and Philadelphia are left, he added...