Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that many African nationalists wanted UDI as much as the whites who took the plunge. Without UDI, the nationalists, bitterly feuding among themselves, seemed under the firm and indefinite control of the white government's efficient police and army. Britain, as sovereign, warded off the worst attacks in the Commonwealth and the United Nations. The perpetual prospect of fruitful negotiations forestalled any effective sanctions or ostracism which might make white Rhodesians hurt...
...William Carter have built a magic island on the Loeb main stage. Paul Levi has filled it with delicate music, which, thanks to a specially installed sound system, is not just a noise off stage, but seems to fill the air. And Mayer, as director, has peopled the enchanted commonwealth with mankind. Plus two. The show should sell out by sundown...
Died. Herbert Vere Evatt, 71, Australian Foreign Minister (1941-49) and Labor Party leader (1951-60), who took his Commonwealth nation out of Britain's shadow and gave it a more nationalistic foreign policy, becoming a spokesman for other less-powerful nations at the drafting of the U.N. Charter, but proved unsuccessful at home as head of the Opposition Labor Party, primarily because of his ultraliberal defense of many Communist causes (the 1954 Petrov spy scandal), which split the once-powerful Laborites and cost them every election since 1951; of pneumonia; in Canberra, Australia...
...months of debate have amply demonstrated. Not only are the state's present finances in disastrous condition; not only must the present confiscatory property tax rates in the cities and towns be lowered to relieve overburdened homeowners and attract much needed industry to the depressed areas of the Commonwealth; not only does the governor have an election mandate for his plan but the future of Massachusett's schools depends upon raising sufficient revenue to implement the provisions of the Willis Commission Report and raise education in the state up to adequate standards...
...come to Rhodesia to try, somehow, to prevent the white-supremacist colonial regime of Ian Smith from seizing independence. It was as critical a mission as Wilson had ever undertaken. The United Nations had urged sanctions to starve the settlers out. Some African states were talking of leaving the Commonwealth. And Wilson himself had talked grimly of the "bloodbath" that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence. At home, where many Britons had blood ties with the settlers, he was under heavy fire to salvage some sort of solution, if only a delay that would prove that Britain had done...