Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Union of South Africa has long had language trouble. Of its citizens, 1,226,382 speak Afrikaans (a simplified version of Dutch); 875,541 speak English; only 35,889 speak both. Since the country was officially declared bilingual in 1925, all official communications were supposed to be written in...
Delicacy & Common Sense. This did not mean that the British, who are determined at all cost to carry on trade with Red China, wanted to pick a fight with the Communists if they could possibly avoid it. "We don't want to provoke the Communists," said a political adviser...
Short Term & Long Term. Less emotional Chinese businessmen have learned to appreciate the advantages of Britain's stable rule in Hong Kong, but this does not keep even anti-Communist Chinese from resenting the traditional discrimination between the ruling class and the ruled. Said one Chinese businessman: "The government...
"In hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing . . ."
For the past four years, poor, typhoon-swept Okinawa has dangled at what bitter Army men call "the logistical end of the line," and some of its commanders have been lax and inefficient. More than 15,000 U.S. troops, whose morale and discipline have probably been worse than that of...