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This scene was repeated at airports and docks from the West Indies to Hong Kong last week as immigrants rushed to get into Britain before July 1, when the new Commonwealth Immigrants Act comes into force. In the past, any citizen of the far-flung Commonwealth could exercise his right of free entry into Britain. As of July 1, he can enter only as a stu dent or visitor, or if he holds in advance a paper from Britain's Ministry of Labor confirming that a definite job awaits him. In the scramble to reach Britain, Indians...
Colored Flood. Many Britons are uneasy at this reversal of traditional Commonwealth policy. As a report by the Church of Scotland put it, the law reduces that sense of "belonging with which any man in any Commonwealth land or language could say, 'Civis Britannicus sum.' " Though the act applies to all Commonwealth countries, white and black, everyone acknowledges that it is intended to discriminate against colored immigrants. But there was little protest in Britain last week, even from M.P.s and newspaper editors who had argued against the bill when it was introduced last November in Parliament. The silence...
Less expensive are The Seven(a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller. (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget...
Since then, Hughes has travelled all over the Commonwealth, addressing both large and small groups and making his position known. He was in Springfield at the time of the Democratic convention, but at no time appeared in the convention hall...
Nine years ago, when Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland united to form the Central African Federation, this new Commonwealth nation looked good to foreign capital. Lured primarily by the riches of Northern Rhodesia's famed Copper Belt (current production: 600,000 tons a year), U.S. and European companies swarmed in to throw up everything from oil refineries to auto assembly plants. Before long, the federation's sprawling capital of Salisbury, a city about the size of El Paso, began to enjoy a wild building boom...