Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonial Office jargon, this is known as "Creative Abdication": by showering concessions on the Africans instead of passing them out piecemeal, as in Malaya, the British hope to gain a friendly new Dominion. Nkrumah's attitude is: "Get out quick-but thanks for the memory...
...hand and agreed that since the constitution has made him the virtual boss of the Gold Coast, he might as well give it a trial. "I am a friend of Britain," he piously announced in his first big speech. "I desire for the Gold Coast the status of a Dominion within the Commonwealth...
...Prime Minister of the self-governing British Colony of Southern Rhodesia. His plan is to federate Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The three territories would form a 475,000square-mile Central African Federation which might one day become Britain's eighth Dominion...
...garrison. Still, it was possible to milk the rich merchants and keep things going, always exempting one's friends and relations, of course-notably the Senator Gratianus, whose pretty daughter, Maria, Felix had thought it wise to marry. Still, these were just the routine troubles of dominion...
...Council passed a bill (which nine Sultan-controlled states had already ratified) laying down conditions of citizenship for the Chinese. To the surprise of the Malays, some 1,200,000 Chinese qualified. It was another triumph for Templer. But the long-range implications are tremendous: in the projected British Dominion of Malaya, which presumably will include predominantly Chinese Singapore, the balance of power will lie with the Chinese population. Thus Britain quietly envisages adding a Chinese country to the Commonwealth, a counterweight in troubled Asia. When they fully understand this, the Malays may be expected to complain. Templer is working...