Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn, was just fine when there was a nice, strong, united Commonwealth to celebrate. But last week, when Commonwealth Day rolled around once again, there was not much of anything to celebrate. Uganda's King Freddy was in flight, and in South America the troubled colony of British Guiana-still under a state of emergency- went its independent way. In fact, things were reaching such an un-Commonwealth pass that a member in Africa could stand up and call for Britain's expulsion, of all things. For Harold Wilson's Commonwealth, it was a week filled with...
...Your "good things in small packages" analysis of the sale of the postcard-size Hubert Van Eyck oil [March 25, p. 69], and mention of the advantages of the rare stamp [p. 88], made me check the value of the world's most valuable postage stamp, the British Guiana 1? of 1856. Last year this l-sq.-in. stamp was displayed at Royal Festival Hall in London, insured for a healthy $560,000-so the portable rare-painting market still has some distance to go to catch up with the portable rare stamp...
Because it bears the heaviest legacy of colonialism, Africa teems with more new nation afflictions than anywhere else. But the problem of nations that are really not nations by any reasonable standards is worldwide: Latin America has British Guiana, which wants to go its own way on a shoestring; the Middle East has Yemen. Asia has its Laos and its Maldive Islands, neither of which makes much sense as a nation. In a different but equally difficult category is Pakistan, bigger and more populous than the others but separated into two parts by 1,000 miles of unfriendly land...
...problem is going to get worse long before it gets better. More new non-nations are waiting impatiently in the wings; Bechuanaland, Basutoland, British Guiana and Mauritius are all due to become independent this year, and Swaziland and South Arabia will follow soon afterward. Britain's Lord Caradon recently reported to the United Nations General Assembly that 50 colonial territories still remained to be freed around the world-31 in the British Empire alone. Since, in general, the weakest and least viable colonies are the last to be turned loose, the prospect is staggering. All of them, of course...
...traditional composition of Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus of Britain's sea power. The army will reduce its garrisons in Malta and Cyprus, will withdraw entirely from British Guiana and Aden. The Royal Air Force's V-bombers, which now constitute Britain's nuclear strike force, will gradually be grounded...