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Nkrumah's enthusiastic "P.G.s" (for Prison Graduate-an inestimable political advantage in a British colony) soon drowned out all others with loudspeaker-car cries, to a calypso-style rhythm, of "FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH, FREEDOM, NKROO-MAH." When the votes were counted, Nkrumah got 71 seats out of 104. Despite the loss of ten seats in Ashanti he had got his "reasonable majority...
...numbers, Hong Kong's 2,400,000 Chinese, speaking every dialect of the mainland, dominate the colony, but a few thousand English-speaking whites run it. The mellow beat of wooden clogs on pavement, the clatter of mah-jongg pieces, the wail of radios tuned to Chinese opera, the brays of hawkers and cries of countless babies, all insist on its Chineseness-but the eye is reminded, by the flap of the Union Jack and the crisp gesture of a traffic cop, that here, as nowhere else in Asia, British "law and order" yet prevail...
...last days of Chiang's mainland rule, Wei turned up in Hong Kong, abundantly supplied with money and costly gewgaws. With his wife, and children by his first marriage, he lived quietly in a two-storied house, with a garden of pines and papayas. He played mah-jongg with other ex-officers, read newspapers of all political hues, and dabbled in the amorphous politics of the "third force...
...Middle. For all his political canniness and his present popularity, it is by no means certain that aged, crippled Ichiro Hatoyama is the one who can do the job. He is essentially a politician, a man who made his way up by nifty deals across the go and mah-jongg tables, by tough brawling in the Diet (once he rushed to the rostrum and tried to punch a fellow Diet member in the nose), and by tacking with the winds of national sentiment. "He is not the kind of leader who stands out and looks down on the people," said...
...jeered at the way bureaucrats, during the regime of his predecessor Shigeru Yoshida, got together with wealthy industrialists "to play mah-jongg and golf and let their work go." He promised lower taxes and more housing. He promised trade with Red China and Russia, and said this would "create conditions which will contribute to world peace." The obliging Russians, not missing a trick, last week offered to start negotiations for normal relations at the place "the Japanese government considers most adequate" (Japan has already designated New York City as its choice...