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Belgium's colonial administrators walk a tightrope over the twin volcanoes of white repression and black extremism. They have given fewer civil rights to their Africans than either the British in Nigeria (due for Dominion status in 1960) to the northwest or the French in Equatorial Africa across the Congo River. They have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville...
...British West Indies is the largest group of colonial possessions in the New World, and in 1958 will become an independent nation with dominion status. Composed of seventeen major islands and approaching a population of three million, there is probably no more interesting combination of peoples and landscape on the globe...
...reading was naturally mostly prose, with the exception of The Hand, which Mr. Williams made slightly over-dramatic, and the beautiful and sad And Death Shall Have No Dominion, with which he closed...
...morning Byrd, now 70, hurried out to the apple orchards around his home at Berryville, supervised the harvest. But each afternoon the Senator settled down at his telephone to pass out political orders that crisscrossed Virginia in anticipation of a different sort of harvest. On Nov. 5 the Old Dominion elects a governor. When it does, the organization through which Harry Byrd has ruled his state for more than a quarter-century expects to reap enough white Democratic votes to bury Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 56, and Virginia's embryonic G.O.P. once and perhaps...
Nearly two decades of maturing experience had produced notable changes in the relations between the monarch and Canada's British subjects of 1939 and its citizens of 1957. Largely gone from official terminology is the word "Dominion." Canada's population is higher by 50%, its wealth multiplied, its international reputation enhanced by years of responsible participation in world affairs...