Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seventeen of the 23 nations in the Commonwealth are predominantly black, brown or yellow. Thus, on the basis of membership alone, the Commonwealth might be expected to deal harshly with the rebel regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, where 220,000 whites now rule 4,000,000 black Africans. But British Prime Minister Har old Wilson has ruled out the use of force against Rhodesia, insisting that economic sanctions will compel Smith to back down. So this week, as the 16th Commonwealth conference begins in London, Wilson faces a crisis over Rhodesia that threatens to tear apart the British-reared...
...list for guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in World War II, led the Malay contingent in London's victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required 350,000 Commonwealth troops before it was crushed. (London took back his O.B.E.) In 1955, Chin and 600 ragged followers withdrew to southern Thailand, bided their time living in attap (palm leaf) huts...
...great military parade and Boer festival celebrating the fifth anniversary of South Africa's resignation from the Commonwealth. In Cape Town, Parliament droned on in the third week of its new session, as Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd sat, chin in palm, in his green leather seat on the government's front bench...
...those conventions of British royal dress have been decanted on her," complained the London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair of good-looking hip-huggers and a Dutch-boy cap. What's more, says Anne, after boarding school she wants to go to Sussex University, one of Britain's new non-snob colleges...
...chief rabbi of the British Commonwealth is one of the most prestigious posts in world Jewry. As leader of more than 820,000 Jews-450,000 of them in Britain-he is recognized by British protocol as one of the country's premier spiritual lords: at state occasions he sits with his peers, the Primate of All England and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. Vacant since the retirement of Dr. Israel Brodie in May 1965, the post will now be filled by an Orthodox rabbi from the U.S.: Immanuel Jakobovits, 45, of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Synagogue...