Word: lennox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a fanfare that was all but lost on the audience that he most sought to impress, British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd last week offered rebellious Cyprus a constitution and a parliament...
...addition, 210 girls live in Lennox Hall, a dormitory near to the gymnasia buildings. B.U.'s other property in Cambridge is another women's dormitory on Sacramento St., which also would be sold to Harvard...
...very glad and thankful," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, to bring "heartening news" to a House of Commons that had been hearing bad news all week. His news: the end of the Mau Mau war. Britain's dirtiest and most tedious war was over, after four years in which 10,505 Mau Mau terrorists were killed, at the price of 1,168 casualties among native and British forces, and close to 3,000 civilians killed or wounded...
Just as the opposition was heating up a parliamentary griddle on which to roast him because of graft in the Cocoa Marketing Board, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into the debate and read off a dispatch just received from British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd. "I have the honor to inform you," the dispatch said, "that Her Majesty's government will at the first available opportunity introduce into the United Kingdom Parliament a bill to accord independence to the Gold Coast, and that, subject to parliamentary approval, Her Majesty's government intend that independence should come on March...
...fanatics" would surrender. And to justify its stubborn refusal to deal with Makarios, the Colonial Office announced that recently captured E.O.K.A. documents proved "beyond doubt" that Archbishop Makarios helped establish E.O.K.A. and was "actually involved in the choice of individual victims for murder." Said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd: "We knew something of [Makarios'] complicity before. I must confess I found it very distasteful to negotiate in a friendly way, knowing his duplicity...