Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In an era of peaceful co-existence [Britain] will be of dwindling value in the eyes of our American friends, who will also very quickly revert to their traditional distrust of colonial empires. Moreover, our economy has been more disturbed than any other by rearmament, and our trade more damaged...
To the general astonishment, he persuaded the French government to authorize him, at the age of 22, to conduct an expedition to an unexplored area of Cambodia, where he had deduced that 1,000-year-old Khmer statues still lay undiscovered along the ancient Royal Way to Angkor Vat. In...
Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We...
The bearded, sword-swinging Sikhs want a lion's share of the Punjab. This is a parched and heat-seared prairie land in northwest India lying south of Kashmir, where the Sikhs fought a century-long battle with invading Moguls and earned the name of being the great warriors...
Paris, Anyone? But in this bright picture there were plenty of dark spots. Many a dealer called the boom "profitless prosperity," as he cut his profit as low as $25 per car. New sales gimmicks blossomed every day. Miami's Colonial Pontiac Agency offered a weeklong, all-expense-paid...