Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
...began auspiciously enough with her storybook arrival last week at St. John's, Nfld., when menacing fog banks, which had clung for days to the airport, rolled back in time for the Queen's Comet to land. While a 21-gun salute boomed away, the Queen and Prince Philip were greeted by Governor General Vincent Massey and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. In St. John's, the royal couple bore out advance notices that their visit would be comfortably informal by mingling with the crowd and chatting briefly with ordinary citizens...
...other members, Commonwealth nations may go to blows with outsiders (Britain v. Egypt) or with each other (India v. Pakistan over Kashmir). Britain welcomes almost any citizen of the Commonwealth to its shores. But Australia and Canada virtually exclude nonwhites, and Ghana and Nigeria forbid white men to own land...
...Sahara-almost the exact amount needed for domestic consumption. But if France is sold on the Sahara, the Sahara is not entirely sold on France. Last week, as self-styled commis voyageur (traveling salesman) for the Sahara, Soustelle flew in his ministerial plane straight into the scorched and craggy land of the Mozabites, the most sales-resistant people in the desert...
There were other Communist setbacks too. An army unit now guards the studios of Radio Baghdad; when Communists tried to organize a "local policing committee" to monitor radio broadcasts, the army commander broke up the meeting. In the countryside, Communists tried to take over Kassem's land-reform scheme through the recently formed National Federation of Peasants' Associations. Fifty farmers decided to take their complaints to the Premier himself, marched into Baghdad carrying a large portrait of Kassem and a long list of anti-Communist complaints, including the fact that the Communist president of the National Federation...