Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First there was "Empire Day" in Britain, which was just fine when there was an empire to celebrate. But then the empire began to crumble, so "Commonwealth Day" took its place. Which, in turn, was just fine when there was a nice, strong, united Commonwealth to celebrate. But last week, when Commonwealth Day rolled around once again, there was not much of anything to celebrate. Uganda's King Freddy was in flight, and in South America the troubled colony of British Guiana-still under a state of emergency- went its independent way. In fact, things were reaching such...
...Kenneth Kaunda, who was impatient for stronger British action against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia. Addressing 20,000 followers at a youth rally in Lusaka, Kaunda attacked Wilson for his "kith and kin" policy on Rhodesia and threatened to propose Britain's expulsion at the next Commonwealth meeting unless Smith's gov ernment has been toppled by then. "Our stand on the rebels is final," Kaunda stressed. ";We refuse to be part and parcel of British treachery...
...Zambia's lifeline for copper exports and coal and consumer-goods imports. By jeopardizing his own economy, Kaunda hopes to put Wilson over a barrel and force him into more decisive action. To calm Kaunda down, last week Wilson sent Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Lusaka. When she arrived, only two minor protocol officers were waiting to meet her, and toward week's end she had yet to talk with Kaunda officially. "If the British government should change its policy tomorrow," said Kaunda, "I would shake the hand of Harold Wilson...
Labor's about-face is possible in part because many of the reasons that led the party to oppose the Tory bid five years ago no longer apply. At that time it was concerned about preserving Commonwealth trade ties. But the Commonwealth nations are trading increasingly within regional areas, and since 1964 Britain's trade with Europe has exceeded that with all the Commonwealth put together. Getting Britain's six partners in the European Free Trade Association into the Common Market no longer seems as pressing a problem either. Austria has been negotiating with Brussels...
...representatives of Ian Smith's rebellious white-minority government, and they came on a special safe-conduct dispensation to commence what the British press called "talks about talks," which Prime Minister Harold Wilson hoped might lead to Rhodesia's ending its six-month rebellion and rejoining the Commonwealth...