Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours the bickering went on, made more short-tempered by Adenauer's request that no one smoke in his presence. Through the doors could be heard the angry outcries of Erhard's rival, Interior Minister Gerhard Schroder, who had wanted him out of the way. In the end a 40-man committee was chosen to find a new presidential candidate, who would inevitably be of less stature than Erhard...
...exploding events in distant Nyasaland seemed inexorably to be falling into the same old tragic pattern. "The Colonial Secretary," taunted Labor's Colonial Specialist Jim Callaghan, "can dust off all the phrases he used about Cyprus and bring them out again." Callaghan continued, his emotion showing: "In the end, we shall concede to force what we failed to concede to reason." But Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd,* in an almost swaggering parliamentary performance, was confident that the news he had up his sleeve would be enough to shock the Opposition into silence...
...onetime locomotive engineer, insisted, as he later put it, that there were "diabolic" plots afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass arrests, and banned the African National Congress, which he conceded was the most popular political movement in a land where there are 3,000,000 blacks and only 8,000 whites. These fateful steps were taken after a week of jitteriness (TIME, March 9) in which men lost their lives...
...Armitage was asked. He replied: "I doubt it." The sad, familiar communiques had begun: because of the threat of trouble, "security forces had been obliged to open fire," and the casualty lists followed. Force could not make Nyasaland accept the domination it feared from Southern Rhodesia. Many predicted the end of federation. But this was no answer, argued London's Economist. Poor Nyasaland would become a "rural slum"; self-governing Southern Rhodesia, isolated, would become a satellite of South Africa, and Africa might be split between African and white at the Zambezi River, with ominous consequences...
...economic chaos that has soaked up $129 million in U.S. grants in six years without results went on. A year ago the International Monetary Fund told Siles that it would end its support if he did not close government-subsidized tin-mine commissaries where the coddled, politically powerful miners were buying meat, rice and other staples at less than cost-a typical rat hole for foreign funds. A few weeks ago the U.S., which sends Bolivia a bail-out allowance of $500,000 every fortnight, backed up the I.M.F. by demanding an end to commissary subsidies. Thus pressured, Siles announced...