Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...placards cried "Freedom!" or "Ne Touchez Pas l'Afrique," and the torrent of anticolonialist oratory at the All African People's Conference in Accra last week seemed to have no end. "Whereas, 72 years ago the scramble for Africa started," said young (28) Conference Chairman Tom Mboya of Kenya, "from Accra we announce that these same powers must be told in a clear, firm and definite voice: 'Scram from Africa...
...end, the delegates seemed to have learned more from their disagreements than from their rantings against the colonialists. They decided to start a sort of permanent African GHQ of agitators to carry on their work, but always mindful of Nasser's muscle flexing; they set the next meeting of the conference in Tunis, an Arab capital now quarreling with Cairo. They recommended five regional federations, but these, they added, should be only between independent states and subject to the will of the people. More militantly, they called vaguely for the establishment of an "African Legion" composed of volunteers...
...General Kassem himself, by week's end, had not announced the name of a single plotter, had not identified the "foreigners" allegedly involved. In such a silence, the suspicion grew that perhaps the plot had been invented, to cover up the arrest of men whom Kassem's cops wanted...
Some Arab leaders have at last begun to see that the Communists, hitherto almost indistinguishable in the common outcry against the West, had never in fact accepted Arab unity under Nasser as a sufficient anti-Western end in itself. All the time, the Reds had been infiltrating and sabotaging the movement, and biding their time to seize power for themselves...
...End to Concessions. Wandering through Washington, Havana, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Manhattan, Betancourt had ten years to think over where he had gone wrong. He conversed long and learnedly with men like himself, e.g., Puerto Rico's Luis...