Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West New Guinea, a strategic prize, may also become economically important when oil and mineral discoveries are properly developed...
...more than a century West New Guinea has been part of the Dutch colonial empire. After World War II, when the rest of the rich Netherlands East Indies got their independence and became Indonesia, the two nations agreed to negotiate the future status of West New Guinea. But Indonesia this year broke all its ties with the old mother country, and the Dutch considered the agreement no longer binding. Immediately, Indonesia submitted to the U.N. its claim to ad minister West New Guinea all by itself. Indonesia's case was woefully weak: it has never had control...
Last week, before the U.N. General Assembly Political Committee, Indonesia asked the U.N. to order the Dutch out of West New Guinea, and raised the bogus cry of colonialism-although Indonesian control would be just as colonial. Nevertheless, the cry had great effect. The Arab-Asian bloc sided with Indonesia; so did the Soviet bloc. By a vote of 34 to 14, the U.N. committee urged both parties to "pursue their endeavors" to solve the dispute, thus repudiating the Dutch contention that Indonesia has no claim on West New Guinea...
...Yale graduate, Whiting has conducted field study in New Guinea and in the southwestern states, where he worked on the College's cross-cultural survey of child-raising in Indian, American, and Spanish-American communities. He is currently heading a study in child-development in five different cultural societies at Cornell, Harvard, and Yale...
Camara Laye is a young Negro from French Guinea, now studying in Paris, who has written a brief, effective autobiography, THE DARK CHILD (188 pp.; Noonday Press; $2.75). It has an aura of primitive charm that is fully matched by its simple dignity. Laye came from Kouroussa, a town in the interior, where his father was a famous goldsmith. The town was near the railroad and had a hospital and schools, but its inhabitants believed in spirits and magic spells, although they were Moslems. Laye is firmly convinced that his mother had magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors...