Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicosia airport, a British field marshal stepped off an R.A.F. Hastings transport, eyed the awaiting refreshments, turned to a cluster of local dignitaries and snapped, "Let's cut the cocktails and go into town." Sir John Harding had taken over as the new governor of Britain's crown colony of Cyprus...
Within an hour, Governor Harding telephoned Archbishop Myriarthefs Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot drive for enosis (union) with Greece, and arranged to meet him next day on the "neutral ground" of Nicosia's Ledra Palace hotel. Then the governor conferred in fast succession with 35 local officials, called in newsmen to tell them that he would have a "man-to-man talk" with Makarios and would "lay all my cards on the table...
...States Reorganization Commission, which has toiled for two years at redrawing India's map. The 29 states which now make up India are an administrative jumble whose boundaries bear little relation to the languages of their people or administrative needs of government. Some states have strong local governments, others are virtually run from New Delhi; some were shaped by the British, others by old princely fiefs and tribal conflicts...
...commission's plan (see map) is to reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers...
...there has been a steady decline in the study of English. "Students." complained Nehru, "do not know what language they should learn and so become ignorant of every language." English-and Hindi-speaking Nehru's solution: make Hindi the national language of education, with each school teaching a local language and English on the side...