Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behest of the governor of Jamaica, a bloodthirsty Blimp named Edward Eyre, British troops slaughtered 500 Jamaican Negroes, some without benefit of court-martial; they flogged and tortured 1,000 others, many of them women and children. The British met no real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...
Poets Y. Philosophers. Colonel Eyre quickly became a symbol of tyranny to the radicals, of empire to the imperialists. A Jamaica Committee was formed to bring Eyre to justice, and an Eyre Defense Committee was formed to vin dicate him. In general, the working classes identified the Jamaicans' cause with their own. The upper classes were determined to keep.the working men, as well as the Jamaicans, in their place...
...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...
...Jamaica...
...sign, too. Ironically, they are all non-nuclear powers, and except for a handful, they will never have a nucle ar capability. At week's end the following had agreed to sign: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, East Germany, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Finland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Laos, Li beria, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Soma lia, the U.A.R. and Uruguay. In addition, about 50 countries have shown an official "interest" in signing, and presumably will do so soon...