Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faster Britain's empire has dwindled, the more precious the rest of it has become. The loss of the vast Sudan last year brought a hardening of British attitudes in Suez and Kenya. Communist revolt in Malaya made drastic action certain when other Reds made trouble in British Guiana. Not surprisingly, postwar Britain has turned to its colonies to 1) recoup its economy, and 2) restore its prestige. British Africa, with the bulk of the empire's area and population, gets top priority...
Loudly anti-British though the P.U.P. had been, its victory was far different from the 1953 triumph of British Guiana's People's Progressive Party, which led to the landing of troops and suspension of the colony's constitution. Profiting by the Guiana lesson. London has given British Honduras' newly chosen legislators none of the ministerial powers formerly granted the Guiana leaders. Guiana's leaders, moreover, were Reds: British Honduras' P.U.P. is not a Communist-influenced movement. On the contrary, most of its leaders learned their guiding principles from Jesuit fathers of St. Louis...
Missionaries & Prime Ministers. With its long line of missionaries, the university has had an international influence greater than any of its rivals. It has students from the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made...
Author Murray (who now lives in Surrey) resembles another prepossessing Commonwealth novelist, Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer (TIME. Jan. 11), in the audacity with which she flirts with fantastic characters and odd situations. But Author Murray's chief triumph is as a specialist in African sickness. Her bedside manner is worthy of Chekhov in wit and diagnostic sharpness; in spirit and human sympathy it never departs from the grand old female tradition of the South African novel...
...Life and Death of Sylvia, by Edgar Mittelholzer. A tragedy of shades of color in British Guiana (TIME...