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...arrested three of the party's top leaders. Explained Whitehead: "The policies of the N.D.P. are blatantly militant and anti-European." Whitehead's action needed no explanation. His United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties to Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. With the chaos in the Congo seemingly confirming the worst fears of white settlers in both major parties, Whitehead knew that any softness toward the Africans...
...Ghana, already an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth, formally became a republic. CJfCyprus, whose long, bloody rebellion had almost been forgotten as negotiations dragged on, finally reached agreement with Britain, will become an independent nation next month...
...atmosphere of street fights and charges of fraud, nearly half of Ghana's 5,500,000 people last week swarmed to the polls. Their object: 1) to vote for or against a new constitution which would change Ghana from a dominion to a republic; 2) to elect as President either Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, or his white-thatched rival, Dr. Joseph Danquah, 64, the present leader of the opposition United Party...
Dark Satanic Mills. In the Down-Under dominion's heavily industrial Hutt Valley (pop. 80,000), Dr. Eastcott found conditions for his inquiry as neatly laid out as in a laboratory experiment. By excluding Maoris, he dealt with people almost entirely of British extraction. Under socialized medicine, all got the same health care. Their smoking habits were essentially the same. All were living where the wind is strong and almost continuous, so that air pollution is negligible. But some had been born and raised there, while others were immigrants who had spent the first part of their lives...
...higher among the British-born, and 75% higher among those who emigrated to New Zealand after age 30. No such discrepancy appeared with cancer in other parts of the body. Moreover, though New Zealanders (native and immigrant alike) smoke even more heavily than stay-at-home Britons, the dominion's lung-cancer death rate is still lower than the old country's. Concluded Dr. Eastcott: "Something happens to the Britisher in his native environment that increases his susceptibility to lung cancer . . . I regard this as the long shadow of those dark Satanic mills...