Word: commonwealth
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...Negro soldiers stationed all over the country, but Americans were foreigners and they left as soon as the War was over. The '50's and early '60's, however, brought an important change. Mother of an empire, Britain felt obligated to open its arms to any subject of a Commonwealth nation. Most of these nations are predominantly colored, and most of them enjoy standards of living considerably below those of Great Britain. The result was predictable. Large numbers of colored Commonwealth subject left their countries, which offered them little hope, and made the trip across an ocean or a continent...
...most immediate worries for a recent immigrant is finding a job. "No black bastards wanted here," and "No vacancy and why don't you go back to your own country," are the answers he learns to expect. Almost one half of the immigrants surveyed by the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (NCCI), which was set up two years ago to advise the government on the integration of Commonwealth immigrants, claimed that they had been discriminated against. Discrimination does not often assume so crass a form. Most employers would not specifically state that they hire on a discriminatory basis...
Harvard College has been accused of any things, but it doesn't intend to be labeled a bad lodging-house keeper. Particularly if the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is doing the labeling...
...argued over what to do about the independence demands of India, Burma and Ceylon, Attlee broke in with his answer: get out. His decision to depart rather than delay avoided ugly anti-British insurrections and enabled him to incorporate all of the former Asian possessions except Burma into the Commonwealth. The cold war, however, put a chill on many of Attlee's plans. He diverted welfare funds to armaments to help block the Soviet threat in Europe, joined NATO, and ordered British scientists to develop a British nuclear deterrent. When the U.S. went to war in Korea to resist...
...City Manager also appeared in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth yesterday to try to get a hearing set for the City's appeal from the Superior Court ruling that the CNCV petition was a fit subject for an initiative petition...