Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, the Air Force announced that Arthur Godfrey, Commander, U.S.N.R., had left television and radio air waves long enough to take a guided tour of the Strategic Air Command operations. His guide: SAC Commander General Curtis LeMay...
...Parents: Arthur Godfrey, What's My Line?, Mama, dramatic shows, movies...
Where Fronts Meet. Last week, at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, the Huggins scheme was-earnestly debated. There were good arguments for federation: copper-rich Northern Rhodesia needs Southern Rhodesia's coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes is the fact that Britain's East African empire is in danger of being submerged. "A Black Front," he says, "is advancing from [the Gold Coast]; a White Front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south." Without federation, he told the conference, "the Rhodesias will become the clashing...
...calm the Negroes' fears, Her Majesty's Colonial Secretary, Oliver Lyttelton, insisted that the federation plan make provision for 1) a six-man native-affairs board with the right to be consulted on all legislation affecting African interests; 2) Negro representation in the federal parliament. Sir Godfrey Huggins assured the conference that in Southern Rhodesia black Africans will have "a voice in the election of white Africans as well as in the election of those whom chance has made of their own color; that, as the years roll by, and the black electorate swells and becomes educated...
Northern Buffer. Now the British House of Commons must approve, on behalf of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and a referendum must be held in Southern Rhodesia, where some of the whites oppose Lyttelton's safeguards as "cotton-woolling" the blacks.* Sir Godfrey is sure that his plan will be accepted. One advantage of a united Rhodesia: if Prime Minister Malan detaches South Africa from the Crown as a Boer Republic, Britain will still have a strong bulwark on Malan's northern frontier...