Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Northern Rhodesia. In a more hopeful mood, Northern Rhodesians trooped to the polls last week to elect new members of the legislative council, under new provisions that increased the number of registered black voters from an absurd four in 1954 to 7,617 (out of a total black population of...
Nyasaland. In the third and most primitive of the three federal states, the days were full of the sounds of new detention camps being built to hold African supporters of the volatile Dr. Hastings Banda (see box). Already 560 were being detained. Sir Roy has yet to reveal the evidence...
For India it was an embarrassing moment: the Indians hope to stay out of the trouble, and Prime Minister Nehru has repeatedly scoffed at exaggerated reports of Tibetan resistance. Last week the Indian consulate, lying between the Potala and Red headquarters, radioed New Delhi that there was "fighting in the...
Maurice Van Hemelrijck, 57, a man with a flair for dramatic decisions, is Belgium's Minister for the Congo-and hopes very much to be the last one. Long before the bloody Léopoldville riots last January, he had warned his government that unless it began giving the...
At first his colleagues in the Cabinet bitterly attacked Van Hemelrijck for his lone-wolf gamble, but since at this delicate moment in Congo affairs Belgium does not wish to appear divided, he got their grudging approval. When a Member of Parliament asked the Premier whether Van Hemelrijck had given...