Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerk in the store said that Officer Yetman "commanded me in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to let him use the phone." But apparently sympathetic to the Avatar salesman, he refused. The policeman then went down the street to find a public telephone...
...purpose of the conference, held at Harvard, was to plan activities for the period of April 20-30, declared by national SDS a time for intensive anti-war work on campuses. Fifteen colleges throughout the Commonwealth were represented by about 100 students...
Though Sandys and Powell are known as right-wingers, their feelings this time drew wide national support. Immigrants from the Commonwealth-mostly Pakistanis, Indians and West Indians-are pouring into Britain in such large numbers that Britain's white population, including the large population of Irish immigrants, is both alarmed and seething with resentment. Warned the London Daily Mail: "The horrors of the riots in Newark and Detroit may seem remote, but all the causes have already taken root here...
...majority of Britain's 1,000,000 Commonwealth immigrants entered the country legally. Half the members of East Africa's 400,000-strong Asian community, for example, are entitled to British citizenship. Since Kenya has started discriminating against its Asian population, giving their jobs to Africans and boycotting their shops, Asians are fleeing to Britain at a rate nearing 3,000 a month. Immigrants from other Commonwealth countries came under the 1962 Immigrants Act, which introduced a system of work permits and restricted the annual total of worker immigrants...
Unwelcome in the cradle of the British Commonwealth, where Asians and Negroes are all labeled as "colored immigrants" by a largely distrustful white population, the immigrants have turned to their own kind, formed large colored communities across England's Midlands and in London slums. Against the background of white resentment, the colored communities are growing restive. Last week 1,000 Pakistanis demonstrated in London against what they called the government's failure to redress the grievances of the Pakistani community. Much of their bitterness is justified. Colored doctors and nurses are a mainstay of Britain's nationalized...