Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most remarkable thing about last week's demonstrations was that they represented the only display of overt passion in a week when the U.N. methodically put off action on a whole roster of major colonial issues. Yet few subjects ordinarily incite more fervor-spontaneous or arranged-or provide...
What caused the new moderation? The anticolonial powers (mostly the Arabs, the Asians and the Latin Americans) claim moral victory in the postponements, on the grounds that by postponing "for the time being," instead of flatly refusing to take up the cases, the General Assembly in effect accepts jurisdiction. The...
The dominant push for moderation, however, came from the U.S., which is bedeviled by the contradictions between its own deep anticolonial instinct and the fact that its most important cold war allies are the colonial powers. In the most important committee votes, the U.S. abstained. But the U.S. was primarily...
The problem of controlling colored immigration is an awkward one in a commonwealth in which 460 million of its 540 million citizens are colored in one shade or another. Answering a question in Parliament recently, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs Henry Hopkinson declared: "In a world in which restrictions...
Queen Juliana of The Netherlands last week reminded the world that the Dutch are still a colonial power in the Western Hemisphere-by graciously relinquishing part of that power. The Queen proclaimed a new Statute of the Kingdom, giving Surinam (Dutch Guiana) and The Netherlands Antilles complete internal self-government...